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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯sˈpi.ki.um/, [äu̯s̠ˈpɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /au̯sˈpi.t͡ʃi.um/, [äu̯sˈpiːt͡ʃium]

名詞

auspicium n (genitive auspiciī or auspicī); second declension

1. divination, augury (by watching birds)
2. auspices
3. (transferred) (plural) power, authority
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.102-103:

     “Commūnem hunc ergō populum paribusque regāmus / auspiciīs [...].”

     “Therefore let us rule this nation jointly and with equal authority.”
     (Understood literally, Juno is proposing that she and Venus will jointly control the divine auspices interpreted at Carthage.)

4. sign, indication

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生した語

参照

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