auspice

From Middle French auspice, from Latin auspicium, in turn from auspex.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôsʹpĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈɔːspɪs/
• (US) enPR: ôsʹpĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈɔspɪs/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: äsʹpĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈɑspɪs/

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• Rhymes: (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) -ɑspɪs

auspice (plural auspices)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Patronage or protection.

   This building was built under the auspices of the Friends of the Poor.

2. An omen or a sign.

   The circle of vultures was not a good auspice.

3. (obsolete) Divination from the actions of birds.

• (patronage or protection): aegis

• (patronage or protection): support
• (divination from the actions of birds): augury, fortunetelling, divination

• auspiced
• auspicing
• auspicious

auspice (third-person singular simple present auspices, present participle auspicing, simple past and past participle auspiced)

1. (transitive) To be patron of; to sponsor. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Borrowed from Latin auspicium.

• IPA^(key): /os.pis/

auspice m (plural auspices)

1. (chiefly in the plural) omen; auspices

• auspicieux
• sous les auspices de

• “auspice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin auspex.

auspice m (plural auspici)

1. auspex
2. patron, sponsor, promoter

• auspicio
• auspicare

• auspice in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

auspice

1. ablative singular of auspex