The story
From Latin auspicatus, past participle of auspicari "to take auspices", from auspex "bird seer", "augur", a contraction of avispex; avis "bird" + specere, spicere, "to view".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
auspicate
Today it means: To foreshow; to foretoken. Full definition →