auspice
French, noun/os.pis/
auspice is a French masculine noun meaning “omen; auspices” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Présages envoyés par les dieux via le vol, le chant des oiseaux ou par la manière dont mangeaient les poulets…”.
What does auspice mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineomen; auspices
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Présages envoyés par les dieux via le vol, le chant des oiseaux ou par la manière dont mangeaient les poulets sacrés. 2. Prêtre qui interprétait ces auspices. 3. (Sens moderne) Circonstances qui permettent d'envisager l'avenir.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of auspice
- auspices plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce auspice?
- /os.pis/
- \ɔs.pis\
- \os.pis\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to auspice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is auspice in French?
auspice appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).