haruspex

• aruspex

Borrowed from Latin haruspex.

haruspex (plural haruspices)

1. A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced divination by inspecting entrails.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     If it be lawfull for Panæcius to maintaine his judgement about Aruspices, Dreames, Oracles and Prophecies […]: Wherfore shall not a wise-man dare that in all things, which this man dareth in such as he hath learned of his Masters?

haru- (“intestines”) + -spex, from speciō (“to observe, watch”).[1] Compare Faliscan 𐌇𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌔𐌐(𐌄𐌗) (harisp(ex)). According to Nocentini[2] the first part stems from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“intestine”), whence also Latin hariolus, hernia (“hernia”), and it is cognate to Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), Proto-Germanic *garnō (“intestines”) (whence German Garn) and to Lithuanian žarnà (“intestine”).

The second part of haru-spex can also be found in the Latin word auspex.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /haˈrus.peks/, [haˈrʊs.pɛks]

haruspex m (genitive haruspicis); third declension

1. diviner who reads from the intestines of sacrificial animals; one who practices haruspicy.

Third declension.

• augur, auspex

• haruspica
• haruspiciālis
• haruspicīnus
• haruspicium

• English: haruspex
• Finnish: haruspeksi
• German: Haruspex
• Italian: aruspice
• Spanish: harúspice

• haruspex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• haruspex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• haruspex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• haruspex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin haruspex.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaruspeks/

haruspex m (genitive singular haruspika, nominative plural haruspikovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. haruspex

• haruspex in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk