extispicium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.stɪsˈpɪ.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ek.stisˈpiː.t͡ʃi.um]

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.