haruspicalis
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
haruspex (“diviner of entrails”) + -ālis (“-al, of or pertaining to”, adjective-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ha.rʊs.pɪˈkaː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.rus.piˈkaː.lis]
Adjective
haruspicālis (neuter haruspicāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin, rare) of or pertaining to a haruspex
- Synonym: (Classical Latin) haruspicīnus
- c. 380 CE, Servius the Grammarian, “In Vergilii Aeneidos librum Ⅳ commentarius [Commentary on book 4 of Virgil's Aeneid]”, in In Vergilii Aeneidem commentarii [Commentaries on Virgil's Aeneid][1]:
- dicendo autem 'per aras', aruspicalem artem ostendit
- But, by saying per ārās, he means the art of the haruspex
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | haruspicālis | haruspicāle | haruspicālēs | haruspicālia | |
| genitive | haruspicālis | haruspicālium | |||
| dative | haruspicālī | haruspicālibus | |||
| accusative | haruspicālem | haruspicāle | haruspicālēs haruspicālīs |
haruspicālia | |
| ablative | haruspicālī | haruspicālibus | |||
| vocative | haruspicālis | haruspicāle | haruspicālēs | haruspicālia | |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Italian: aruspicale (learned)
References
- “haruspicalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- haruspicalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.