augurium

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Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

augurum, augorium, agurium, agorium (all late and non-standard)^[1]

Etymology[edit]

From augur +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡu.ri.um/, [äu̯ˈɡʊriʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡu.ri.um/, [äu̯ˈɡuːrium]

Noun[edit]

augurium n (genitive auguriī or augurī); second declension

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	augurium	auguria
Genitive	auguriī augurī¹	auguriōrum
Dative	auguriō	auguriīs
Accusative	augurium	auguria
Ablative	auguriō	auguriīs
Vocative	augurium	auguria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants[edit]

(All derived from one or another of the Late Latin forms)

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: aguri
Italo-Romance:
- Old Italian: aghuro
Padanian:
- Romansch: agur
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: ahuyr
- Old French: eur
  - French: heur (dated)
  - → Middle English: eure
- Old Occitan: agur
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: agoiro, agüiro; agoyro, aguyro
  - Galician: agoiro
  - Portuguese: agoiro, agouro
- Old Spanish: aguero
  - Spanish: agüero
- → Basque: agur

Borrowings:

→ Catalan: auguri
→ Friulian: augûr
→ Galician: augurio
→ Italian: augurio
→ Old French: augurie
- ⇒ French: augure
- → English: augury
→ Picard: audjure, augure
→ Portuguese: augúrio
→ Romanian: augur
→ Spanish: augurio
→ Venetian: agùrio

References[edit]

“augurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“augurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
augurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take the auspices, observe the flight of birds: augurium agere, auspicari (N. D. 2. 4. 11)
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “augŭrium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 897

^ “augurium” in volume 2, column 1371, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

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