aruspicare

Italian

Etymology

Derived from aruspice (haruspex) + -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ru.spiˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: a‧ru‧spi‧cà‧re

Verb

aruspicàre (first-person singular present arùspico, first-person singular past historic aruspicài, past participle aruspicàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, archaic, very rare) to tell the future by means of haruspicy
    • 1531, Niccolò Machiavelli, chapter 14, Libro primo, in Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio [Considerations on Titus Livius' first Decade], Milan: Niccolò Bettoni, published 1824:
      Né ad altro fine tendeva questo modo dello aruspicare, che di fare i soldati confidentemente ire alla zuffa; dalla quale confidenza quasi sempre nasce la vittoria.
      And this way of telling the future by haruspicy had no other goal than sending soldiers to battle with confidence, confidence from which victory is almost always born.
    • 1873, Luigi Anelli, “Priscillanisti e altri eretici [Priscillianists and other heretics]”, in Storia della chiesa per un vecchio cattolico italiano [History of the church by an old Italian catholic], volume 1, Milan: Treves, page 278:
      Favoreggiatore del paganesimo, Arbogaste ne riaprì i templi, dove fumavano sacrifici, s'immolavano vittime, i sacerdoti aruspicavano, e tutto facevasi sì manifestamente sotto la protezione delle leggi, che s. Ambrogio, il quale pur era di forte ingegno e di maschio spirito, se ne fuggì di Milano.
      A supporter of paganism, Arbogast reopened its temples, where sacrifices smoked, victims were sacrificed, the priests practiced haruspicy, and everything was done in broad daylight, under protection of the laws, such that St. Ambrose, despite being highly ingenious, and strong-willed, fled Milan.

Conjugation

References

  • aruspicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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