augurium

Latin

Etymology

From Latin augur.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

augurium n (genitive auguriī or augurī); second declension

1. augury
2. divination, prediction
3. omen, portent
4. foreboding

Declension

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

• → Catalan: auguri
• → Friulian: augûr
• Galician: agoiro; → augurio
• → Italian: augurio
• Occitan: agur, ur
• Old French: eür
  • French: heur
• → Old French: augurie
  • ⇒ French: augure
  • → English: augury
• Picard: aüre; → audjure, augure
• Portuguese: agoiro, agouro; → augúrio
• Spanish: agüero; → augurio
• → Venetian: agùrio
• → Basque: agur

References

• “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)