haruspex

== English == === Alternative forms === aruspex, haruspice === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin haruspex. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /həˈrʌspɛks/ === Noun === haruspex (plural haruspices) A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced haruspicy, divination by inspecting entrails. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *haru-speks, from *speks. The first component may be related to hīra (“empty gut”); the second is from the root of speciō (“to observe, watch”). Compare Faliscan 𐌇𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌔𐌐(𐌄𐌗) (harisp(ex)). According to Nocentini the first part stems from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- (“intestine”) (thus *ǵʰr̥H-u- > *xaru-), whence also Latin hariolus, hernia (“hernia”). Cognate to Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), Proto-Germanic *garnō (“intestines”) (whence German Garn) and to Lithuanian žarnà (“intestine”). The component -spex can also be found in the word auspex. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [haˈrʊs.pɛks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈrus.peks] === Noun === haruspex m (genitive haruspicis); third declension diviner who reads from the intestines of sacrificial animals; one who practices haruspicy ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Coordinate terms ==== augur, auspex ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “haruspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “haruspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “haruspex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “haruspex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers == Slovak == === Etymology === Derived from Latin haruspex. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɦaruspeks/, [ˈɦaruspeks] Rhymes: -uspeks Hyphenation: ha‧rus‧pex === Noun === haruspex m pers haruspex ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “haruspex”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026