auceps

From avis (“bird”) +‎ -ceps (“catcher”), from capio.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.keps/, [ˈau̯.kɛps]

auceps m (genitive aucupis); third declension

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

Third declension.

• auceps syllabārum

• 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, 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