extispicium

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Latin

Etymology

extispex (“diviner of entrails”) +‎ -ium (forming abstract nouns)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.stisˈpi.ki.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.stisˈpi.t͡ʃi.um/,

Noun

extispicium n (genitive extispiciī or extispicī); second declension

extispicy; divination through the examination of entrails.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	extispicium	extispicia
genitive	extispiciī extispicī¹	extispiciōrum
dative	extispiciō	extispiciīs
accusative	extispicium	extispicia
ablative	extispiciō	extispiciīs
vocative	extispicium	extispicia

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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