haruspex

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced haruspicy, divination by inspecting entrails.

Translations

 * Asturian:
 * Faliscan: harispex
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:, extispex
 * Portuguese:

Etymology
From, from earlier *xaruspeks (to differentiate it from a later form *haruspeks if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic), equivalent to. The first component is related to ; the second is from the root of. Compare 🇨🇬.

According to Nocentini the first part stems from (thus *ǵʰr̥H-u- > *xaru-), whence also Latin,.

Cognate to Ancient Greek, Proto-Germanic (whence German ) and to Lithuanian. The component can also be found in the word.

Noun

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

Etymology
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