auceps

From Proto-Italic *awikaps. Equivalent to avis (“bird”) +‎ -ceps (“catcher”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.keps/, [ˈäu̯kɛps̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈäːu̯t͡ʃeps]

auceps m (genitive aucupis); third declension

1. a bird-catcher; fowler
2. (figuratively) eavesdropper

Third-declension noun.

• auceps syllabārum

• “auceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auceps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a verbal, petty critic; a caviller: syllabarum auceps
    
• “auceps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “auceps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin