extispicium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.stisˈpi.ki.um/, [ɛks̠t̪ɪs̠ˈpɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.stisˈpi.t͡ʃi.um/, [ekst̪isˈpiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

extispicium n (genitive extispiciī or extispicī); second declension

1. extispicy; divination through the examination of entrails.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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.