different between haruspex vs augur

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augur, of uncertain origin; akin to augur? (“interpret omens”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• Rhymes: -????(?)
• Homophone: auger; see also AGA

Noun

augur (plural augurs)

1. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.
2. (Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.

Translations

Verb

augur (third-person singular simple present augurs, present participle auguring, simple past and past participle augured)

1. To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome.

   to augur well or ill

Derived terms

• augury

Translations

Further reading

• augur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• augur in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• augur at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Two possibilities are:

• From Old Latin *augus (“increase”) (genitive *augeris), which is related to auge? (“to increase”). This could be inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h?éwgos; compare Sanskrit ???? (ojas, “strength, vigor”), Avestan ????????????????????? (aojah), ????????????????????? (aogah, “might, power”) as well as Latin augustus (< *h?ewgos-tos).
• From avis (“bird”) + garrire (“to talk”), as augurs were known to observe the behavior of birds.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?.?ur/, [?äu???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?.?ur/, [???u??ur]

Noun

augur m or f (genitive auguris); third declension

1. augur

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• auspex

Derived terms

• augurium
• augur?

Descendants

References

• augur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• augur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• augur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• augur in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• augur in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• augur in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle English

Noun

augur

1. Alternative form of nauger

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin augur

Noun

augur m (definite singular auguren, indefinite plural augurer, definite plural augurene)

1. (historical) an augur, see English augur for more.
2. (informal) a chief, bigwig

References

• “augur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “augur” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin augur

Noun

augur m (definite singular auguren, indefinite plural augurar, definite plural augurane)

1. (historical) an augur, see English augur for more.
2. (informal) a chief, bigwig

References

• “augur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French augure, from Latin augur, augurium.

Noun

augur m (plural auguri)

1. augur, auspex

Noun

augur n (uncountable)

1. augury, omen

Related terms

• augura

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin augur.

Noun

augur m (plural augures)

1. augur

Related terms

Further reading

• “augur” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.