different between divination vs haruspex

English

Etymology

From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)

1. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3. (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:divination

Derived terms

• star divination

Related terms

• divine
• predivination

Translations

See also

• Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin d?v?n?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination

Further reading

• “divination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination (act of divining)

Related terms

• diviner

English

Alternative forms

• aruspex

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin haruspex.

Noun

haruspex (plural haruspices)

1. A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced divination by inspecting entrails.
   • 2013, Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality:

     All of this is nonsense, but so are all attempts to look at a few successes and a few failures and make fatuous generalizations based on coincidence. Etruscan and Roman haruspices did the same thing with the entrails of chickens.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *haruspeks, equivalent to haru- (“intestines”) +? *spex. The first component is related to h?ra; the second is from the root of speci? (“to observe, watch”). Compare Faliscan ????????????????????????(????????) (harisp(ex)).According to Nocentini the first part stems from Proto-Indo-European *??er- (“intestine”), whence also Latin hariolus, hernia (“hernia”), and it is cognate to Ancient Greek ????? (khord?), Proto-Germanic *garn? (“intestines”) (whence German Garn) and to Lithuanian žarnà (“intestine”). The component -spex can also be found in the word auspex.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ha?rus.peks/, [hä???s?p?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?rus.peks/, [???usp?ks]

Noun

haruspex m (genitive haruspicis); third declension

1. diviner who reads from the intestines of sacrificial animals; one who practices haruspicy.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Coordinate terms

• augur, auspex

Derived terms

• haruspica
• haruspici?lis
• haruspic?nus
• haruspicium

Descendants

All descendants are borrowed

References

• haruspex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• haruspex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• haruspex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• haruspex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin haruspex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??aruspeks/

Noun

haruspex m (genitive singular haruspika, nominative plural haruspikovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. haruspex

Declension

Further reading

• haruspex in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk