pɛks, ˈhær
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| —n , pl haruspices | |
| (in ancient Rome) a priest who practised divination, esp by examining the entrails of animals | |
| [C16: from Latin, probably from hīra gut + specere to look] | |
| haruspical | |
| —adj | |
| haruspicy | |
| —n | |
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Haruspex
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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haruspex
1584, from L. "soothsayer by means of entrails," first element related to L. hernia "rupture," Gk. khorde "gut," Skt. hira "entrails;" second element from L. spic- "beholding, inspecting" (see inspect). The practice is Etruscan.
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