German

Noun

Haruspex m ‎(genitive Haruspexes, plural Haruspizes)

1. haruspex

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• aruspex

Noun

haruspex ‎(plural haruspices)

1. A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced divination by inspecting entrails.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     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?

Translations

Latin

Etymology

The word haruspex is composed of haru- ‎(“intestines”) and -spex, which is derived from speciō ‎(“to observe, watch”).^[1] Compare Faliscan harispex.

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

haruspex m ‎(genitive haruspicis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Coordinate terms

• augur, auspex

Derived terms

• haruspica
• haruspiciālis
• haruspicīnus
• haruspicium

Descendants

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

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “haruspex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• haruspex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

1. ↑ “aruspice” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2
2. ↑ “aruspice” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin haruspex.

Noun

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

1. haruspex

Declension