Entrails are the inner organs of an animal or a person. Spill his entrails, read the entrails, the entrails were removed.
Reading the entrails was a formal method of divination in Rome, with trained officials and rules, and the phrase survives for any attempt to predict from thin evidence. The word is always plural. The Latin behind it means the inner parts.
1nounentrailsThe inner organs of an animal or a person.
“The hunters cleaned the deer and left its entrails for the foxes.”
entrails is organs.
Old French entrailles comes from Latin interanea, the inner parts, from inter, within.
Latin
interānea
Vulgar Latin
intrālia
Old French
entrailles
Middle English
entraille
English, today
entrails
From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA