auceps

Possibly from Proto-Italic *awikaps, itself possibly from *awis + *-kaps. Equivalent to avis (“bird”) +‎ -ceps (“catcher”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯.kɛps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaːu̯.t͡ʃeps]

auceps m (genitive aucupis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• auceps syllabārum
• aucupor

• “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^[1], 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
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 65