Latin

Noun

oscen m, f ‎(genitive oscinis); third declension

1. any bird by whose song or cries (rather than its flight) augurs divined omina

Declension

Third declension.

Derived terms

• oscinus

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “oscĕn”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,095/2.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the omens are favourable to some one: aves (alites, oscines) addī**** alicui (opp. abdicunt aliquid)
    
• “oscen” on page 1,273/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)