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

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

auceps m (genitiveaucupis);third declension

1. abird-catcher;fowler
2. (figuratively)eavesdropper

Third-declension noun.

• auceps syllabārum
• aucupor

• “auceps”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auceps”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “auceps”, inGaffiot, 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”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “auceps”, inWilliam 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,page65

• Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
• Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-
• Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
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• Latin terms suffixed with -ceps (catcher)
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