horoscope

horoscope

English

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒ.ɹə.skəʊp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.ɹəˌskoʊp/
• Hyphenation: ho‧ro‧scope

Noun

horoscope (plural horoscopes)

1. The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
2. An astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, 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 29934103, page 103:

     "Ah, min hart! And what day was it?"
     "How curious you are! Do you want to cast my horoscope?"

Synonyms

• rashifal

Translations

astrological forecast

Arabic: خَرِيطَة اَلْبُرُوج‎ f (ḵarīṭat al-burūj), أَبْرَاج‎ m (ʔabrāj) Bashkir: йондоҙнамә (yondoðnamä) Catalan: horòscop m Chinese: Mandarin: 占星 (zh), 星座運勢／星座运势 Coptic: ⲛⲓⲡⲩⲣⲅⲟⲥ ⲙ̀ⲙⲁϩⲓ̅ⲃ̅ (nipurgos m̀mahi̅b̅) Czech: horoskop (cs) m Danish: horoskop n Dutch: horoscoop (nl) Esperanto: horoskopo Estonian: horoscoop Finnish: horoskooppi (fi) French: horoscope (fr) m Galician: horóscopo m German: Horoskop (de) n Greek: ωροσκόπιο (el) n (oroskópio) Hebrew: הורוסקופ‎ (he) Hindi: राशिफल m (rāśiphal) Hungarian: horoszkóp (hu) Italian: oroscopo (it) m Japanese: ホロスコープ (horosukōpu), 星占い (hoshiuranai) Korean: 운세 (unse) Lithuanian: horoskopas m Macedonian: хороскоп m (horoskop) Norwegian: Bokmål: horoskop n Nynorsk: horoskop n Persian: زایچه‎ (fa) (zāyče), زایجه‎ (fa) (zāyǰe) Polish: horoskop (pl) m Portuguese: horóscopo (pt) m Russian: гороско́п (ru) m (goroskóp) Slovak: horoskop (sk) m Spanish: horóscopo (es) m Swedish: horoskop (sv) n Turkish: horoskop Urdu: زائچہ‎ (zaicha)

position of the planets and stars; diagram of such positions

Chinese: Mandarin: 天宮圖／天宫图 (zh) (tiāngōngtú) Galician: horóscopo m German: Horoskop (de) n Persian: زایچه‎ (fa) (zâyče) Polish: horoskop (pl) m Russian: гороско́п (ru) m (goroskóp)

See also

• astrology
• pseudoscience

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɔs.kɔp/

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Noun

horoscope m (plural horoscopes)

1. horoscope (all senses)

Further reading

• “horoscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.