extispicium
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.stisˈpi.ki.um/, [ɛks̠t̪ɪs̠ˈpɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.stisˈpi.t͡ʃi.um/, [ekst̪isˈpiːt͡ʃium]
Noun
extispicium n (genitive extispiciī or extispicī); second declension
- extispicy; divination through the examination of entrails.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → English: extispicy
- → Italian: extispicio, estispicio
References
- “extispicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- extispicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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