aruspicale

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin haruspicālis, derived from Classical Latin haruspex (“diviner of entrails”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.ru.spiˈka.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: a‧ru‧spi‧cà‧le

Adjective

aruspicale (plural aruspicali)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome, rare) of or pertaining to a haruspex
    Synonym: aruspicino
    • 1824, Francesco Inghiramo, “Tavola ⅬⅩⅩⅠ [Table 71]”, in Monumenti etruschi o di etrusco nome [Etruscan or Etruscan-named monuments]‎, volume 2, number 2, Poligrafia Fiesolana, page 615:
      Ricorda egli che questa ninfa, giusta la mitologia degli Etruschi, lasciò scritti parecchi libri dell'arte aruspicale, da Fulgenzio Placiade citati, e rammentati da Servio e dallo Scoliaste di Stazio.
      He reminds us that this nymph, [taking] Etruscan mythology as correct, left many written books on the art of the haruspex, mentioned by Planciades Fulgentius, and remembered by Servius, and [by] Statius' scholiast.

References
  • aruspicale in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

Adjective

aruspicāle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of aruspicālis
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