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Latin
Etymology
From auspex (“augur, priest”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
auspicium n (genitive auspiciī or auspicī); second declension
- divination, augury (by watching birds)
- auspices
- (transferred) (plural) power, authority
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.102-103:
- “Commūnem hunc ergō populum paribusque regāmus / auspiciīs .”
- “Therefore let us rule this nation jointly and with equal authority.”
(Understood literally, Juno is proposing that she and Venus will jointly control the divine auspices interpreted at Carthage.)
- sign, indication
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “auspicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auspicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auspicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “auspicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “auspicium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin