aruspice

aruspice (plural aruspices)

1. Alternative form of haruspex
   • 1751, John Boyle Earl of Orrery, The Letters of Pliny the Younger:

     The aruspices, by whose admonition [aruspicum monitu] PLINY had undertaken to rebuild the temple of CERES, were always more revered in Tuscany, than in any other part of Italy.

   • 1810, William Fordyce Mavor, The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the City Till the Termination of the Eastern Empire:

     The Roman aruspices were all taken at first from Etruria, where their art was in great repute, but afterwards the senate ordered twelve of the sons of the chief men in Rome to be sent into that country to learn the rites and ceremonies of the Etruscan religion, of which the science was the chief part.

   • 1830, Tales of the Classics:

     He therefore determined to offer without delay a sacrifice of two sheep, and sent off messengers to fetch an aruspice who might examine the entrails of those poor animals, with a view to discover what this sudden and miraculous growth of horns might signify.

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aruspice m (plural aruspices)

1. haruspex

• “aruspice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin haruspicem, from Proto-Italic *haruspeks (“diviner”, literally “who examines intestines”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥H-u-, from the root *ǵʰer- (“bowels, intestines”), plus the root *speḱ- (“to see, look, observe”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈru.spi.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -uspitʃe
• Hyphenation: a‧rù‧spi‧ce

aruspice m (plural aruspici)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) haruspex (one who practices divination by inspecting entrails)

• aruspicare

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

• sciupare, sciuperà

aruspice

1. ablative singular of aruspex

Borrowed from French aruspice.

aruspice m (plural aruspici)

1. haruspex