astrology

English

Alternative forms

astrol. (abbreviation)

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.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˈstɹɒlədʒi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

astrology (usually uncountable, plural astrologies)

Acta eruditorum, 1716

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 2012, p. 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.

Synonyms

starcraft, astrosophy, astromancy

Derived terms

Chinese astrology
judicial astrology
judiciary astrology
natural astrology
sidereal astrology
tropical astrology
Western astrology

Related terms

astrologer
astrological
astrologically
astrologism

Translations

star divination

Albanian: astrologji (sq)
Arabic: تَنْجِيم‎ m (tanjīm)
Armenian: աստղագուշակություն (hy) (astłagušakutʿyun)
Basque: astrologia (eu)
Breton: steredouriezh f
Bulgarian: астрология f (astrologija)
Burmese: ဗေဒင် (my) (bedang), ဟူးရား (my) (hu:ra:), ဝေဒ (my) (weda.)
Catalan: astrologia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 占星學／占星学 (zh) (zhānxīngxué), 星相 (zh) (xīngxiàng)
Czech: astrologie (cs) f, hvězdopravectví n
Danish: astrologi c
Dutch: astrologie (nl) f, sterrenwichelarij (nl) f
Esperanto: astrologio (eo)
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
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, ໂຫລາສາດ, 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) (jyōtiṣaṃ)
Maltese: astroloġija f
Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭧𐭲𐭥𐭬𐭠𐭥𐭩𐭤‎ (ʾḥtʿmʾʿyh /axtarmārīh/)
Nepali: ज्योतिष (ne) (jyotiṣ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: astrologi (no) m
Nynorsk: astrologi m
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