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aruspicale
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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin haruspicālis, derived from Classical Latin haruspex (“diviner of entrails”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
aruspicale m or f by sense (plural aruspicali)
- (historical, Ancient Rome, rare) of or pertaining to a haruspex
- Synonym: aruspicino
- 1824, Francesco Inghiramo, “Tavola ⅬⅩⅩⅠ [Table 71]”, in Monumenti etruschi o di etrusco nome [Etruscan or Etruscan-named monuments], volume 2, number 2, Poligrafia Fiesolana, page 615:
- Ricorda egli che questa ninfa, giusta la mitologia degli Etruschi, lasciò scritti parecchi libri dell'arte aruspicale, da Fulgenzio Placiade citati, e rammentati da Servio e dallo Scoliaste di Stazio.
- He reminds us that this nymph, [taking] Etruscan mythology as correct, left many written books on the art of the haruspex, mentioned by Planciades Fulgentius, and remembered by Servius, and [by] Statius' scholiast.
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References
- aruspicale in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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Latin
Adjective
aruspicāle
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