Etymology
From Middle French astrologie, and its source, Latin astrologia (“astronomy”), from Ancient Greek ἀστρολογία (astrología, “telling of the stars”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star, planet, or constellation”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”), combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “one who speaks (in a certain manner)”). Morphologically astro- + -logy.
Noun
astrology (usually uncountable, plural astrologies)
- Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies. [from 14th c.]
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 274:For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
- 2012, The Guardian, (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
- Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
2018 January 18, Julie Beck, “The New Age of Astrology”, in The Atlantic:In some ways, astrology is perfectly suited for the internet age. There’s a low barrier to entry, and nearly endless depths to plumb if you feel like falling down a Google research hole.
Translations
star divination
- Afrikaans: astrologie, sterrewiggelary (af)
- Albanian: astrologji (sq)
- Arabic: تَنْجِيم m (tanjīm)
- Armenian: աստղագուշակություն (hy) (astġagušakutʻyun)
- Basque: astrologia (eu)
- Breton: steredouriezh f
- Bulgarian: астрология (bg) f (astrologija)
- Burmese: ဗေဒင် (my) (bedang), ဟူးရား (my) (hu:ra:), ဝေဒ (my) (weda.)
- Catalan: astrologia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 占星學 (zh) (zhānxīngxué), 星相 (zh) (xīngxiàng)
- Czech: astrologie (cs) f, hvězdopravectví (cs) n
- Danish: astrologi c
- Dutch: astrologie (nl) f, sterrenwichelarij (nl) f
- Esperanto: astrologio (eo)
- Estonian: astroloogia
- Faroese: stjørnuspeki f
- Finnish: astrologia (fi)
- French: astrologie (fr) f
- Galician: astroloxía (gl) f
- Georgian: ასტროლოგია (asṭrologia)
- German: Astrologie (de) f
- Greek: αστρολογία (el) f (astrología)
- Ancient: ἀστρολογία f (astrología)
- Hindi: ज्योतिष (hi) f (jyotiṣ)
- Hungarian: asztrológia (hu), csillagjóslás (hu)
- Icelandic: stjörnuspeki f, stjörnuspáfræði f
- Indonesian: astrologi (id)
- Irish: astralaíocht f
- Italian: astrologia (it) f
- Japanese: 占星学 (senseigaku)
- Kannada: ಜ್ಯೋತಿಷ (kn) (jyōtiṣa)
- Khmer: ហោរាសាស្ត្រ (haoraa saah)
- Lao: ໂຫຣາສາດ (r sāt), ໂຫລາສາດ (l sāt), ນັກສັດຕະລະວິທະຍາ (nak sat ta la wi tha nyā)
- Latin: astrologia (la) f
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: astrologija
- Macedonian: астрологија f (astrologija)
- Malay: astrologi (ms), ilmu nujum, kaji bintang
- Malayalam: ജ്യോതിഷം (ml) (jyōtiṣaṁ)
- Maltese: astroloġija f
- Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭧𐭲𐭥𐭬𐭠𐭥𐭩𐭤 (ʾḥtʿmʾʿyh /axtarmārīh/)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: одон зурхай (odon zurxaj), астрологи (astrologi)
- Mongolian: ᠣᠳᠤᠨ
ᠵᠢᠷᠤᠬᠠᠢ (odun ǰiruqai), ᠠᠰᠲ᠋ᠷᠤᠯᠤᢉᠢ
- Nepali: ज्योतिष (ne) (jyotiṣ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: astrologi (no) m
- Nynorsk: astrologi m, stjernetyding f
- Occitan: astrologia (oc) f
- Persian: ستارهشناسی (fa), نجوم (fa), اخترگویی (axtarguyi)
- Polish: astrologia (pl) f
- Portuguese: astrologia (pt) f
- Romanian: astrologie (ro) f
- Russian: астроло́гия (ru) f (astrológija)
- Sanskrit: ज्योतिष (sa) n (jyotiṣa)
- Scottish Gaelic: speuradaireachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: астрологија f
- Roman: astrologija (sh) f
- Sinhalese: ජෝතිෂ්යය (si) (jōtiṣyaya)
- Slovak: astrológia (sk) f
- Slovene: astrologija
- Spanish: astrología (es) f
- Swahili: unajimu, falaki (sw)
- Swedish: astrologi (sv) c
- Tagalog: astrolohiya
- Thai: โหราศาสตร์ (th) (hǒo-raa-sàat), นักษัตรวิทยา (th) (nák-sàt-dtrà-wít-tá-yaa)
- Turkish: astroloji (tr)
- Ukrainian: астрологія (uk) f (astrolohija)
- Vietnamese: chiêm tinh học (vi)
- Volapük: strolog (vo), (obsolete) lustelav
- Welsh: sêr-ddewiniaeth (cy) f, astroleg f
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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