German

Alternative forms

• Haruspizes

Noun

Haruspices

1. plural of Haruspex
   • 1954, Heinrich Böll, Haus ohne Hüter

     Fleißig, sauber, emsig, mit nicht zu viel, nicht zu wenig Leidenschaft webten sie am Gobelin der Kultur: flinkhändige Schwindler, die, wenn sie sich trafen, einander zulächelten wie Haruspices.

     Diligently, cleanly, assiduously, with neither too much nor too little passion they wove the tapestry of culture: nimble-handed swindlers, who, whenever they met, smiled to each other like haruspices.

English

Noun

haruspices

1. plural of haruspex

Latin

Noun

haruspicēs

1. nominative plural of haruspex
2. accusative plural of haruspex
3. vocative plural of haruspex

References

• haruspices in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin