auspex

auspex (plural auspices)

1. (historical) An officiating priest in Ancient Rome.

From *avi-spex (“who examines (the flight of) the birds”). The first part of the word is the stem of avis (“bird”). The second part is related to specere, speciō (“to watch, observe”).[1] See also haruspex.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯s.peks/, [ˈäu̯s̠pɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯s.peks/, [ˈäu̯speks]

auspex m (genitive auspicis); third declension

1. an augur
2. an officiating priest

Third-declension noun.

• augur

• haruspex, auspex

• auspicium

• → Koine Greek: αὔσπιξ (aúspix)
• Italian: auspice
• Portuguese: áuspice

• “auspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auspex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “auspex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “auspex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin