oraculum

• ōrāclum

From ōrō (“plead, beg; pray, entreat”) +‎ -culum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oːˈraː.ku.lum/, [oːˈräːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈra.ku.lum/, [oˈräːkulum]

ōrāculum n (genitive ōrāculī); second declension

1. A divine announcement, oracle.
2. A prophetic declaration; prophecy.
3. A place where oracular responses were given; oracle.
4. An oracular saying, maxim.
5. An imperial rescript.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ōrāculārius

• “oraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oraculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• oraculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to consult an oracle: oraculum consulere
    
  • to ask for an oracular response: oraculum petere (ab aliquo)
    
  • to give an oracular response: oraculum dare, edere
    
  • an oracle given by the Delphian Apollo (Apollo Pythius): oraculum Pythium (Pythicum)
    
• “oraculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin