aruspicare

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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

    Conjugation of aruspicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive aruspicàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund aruspicàndo
present participle aruspicànte past participle aruspicàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present arùspico arùspichi arùspica aruspichiàmo aruspicàte arùspicano
imperfect aruspicàvo aruspicàvi aruspicàva aruspicavàmo aruspicavàte aruspicàvano
past historic aruspicài aruspicàsti aruspicò aruspicàmmo aruspicàste aruspicàrono
future aruspicherò aruspicherài aruspicherà aruspicherémo aruspicheréte aruspicherànno
conditional aruspicherèi aruspicherésti aruspicherèbbe, aruspicherébbe aruspicherémmo aruspicheréste aruspicherèbbero, aruspicherébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present arùspichi arùspichi arùspichi aruspichiàmo aruspichiàte arùspichino
imperfect aruspicàssi aruspicàssi aruspicàsse aruspicàssimo aruspicàste aruspicàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
arùspica arùspichi aruspichiàmo aruspicàte arùspichino
negative imperative non aruspicàre non arùspichi non aruspichiàmo non aruspicàte non arùspichino

References

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