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Latin
Etymology
Alteration of an earlier *opscen, from ops- + -cen (“singer”).
Pronunciation
Noun
oscen m or f (genitive oscinis); third declension
- any bird by whose song or cries (rather than flight) augurs divined omina
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “oscen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “oscen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- oscĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,095/2.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the omens are favourable to some one: aves (alites, oscines) addīcunt alicui (opp. abdicunt aliquid)
- “oscen” on page 1,273/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)