horoscope
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French horoscope, from Medieval Latin horoscopus, from Ancient Greek ὡροσκόπος (hōroskópos), from ὥρα (hṓra, “any limited time”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).
Pronunciation
Noun
horoscope (plural horoscopes)
- The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
- An astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 90:
- We must talk of the force of circumstances, of imperative necessity, and find fault with the cruel horoscope which ordained such a fate.
- 1855, William Hurton, chapter XXIII, in The Doomed Ship; or, The Wreck of the Arctic Regions, London: Willoughby & Co., […], →OCLC, page 103:
- "Ah, min hart! And what day was it?"
"How curious you are! Do you want to cast my horoscope?"
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
astrological forecast
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See also
Pronunciation
Noun
horoscope m (plural horoscopes)
- horoscope (all senses)
Further reading
- “horoscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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