extispicium

extispicium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin extispex
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin extispicium

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

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    extispicium n (genitive extispiciī or extispicī); second declension

    1. 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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