cartomancy

cartomancy

English

Etymology

Compare French cartomancie. See card and -mancy.

Noun

cartomancy (uncountable)

1. Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 91:

     These travelling magicians [...] rarely penetrated more deeply into magic than cartomancy, palmistry and the like.

Translations

fortune-telling using cards

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: cartomància (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 紙牌卜卦／纸牌卜卦 (zhǐpái bǔguà), 紙牌占卜／纸牌占卜 (zhǐpái zhānbǔ) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: korteista ennustaminen French: cartomancie (fr) f Galician: cartomancia f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Kartenlegen n, Kartenlesen n, Kartomantie (de) f Greek: χαρτομαντεία (el) f (chartomanteía) Hungarian: kártyavetés (hu), kártyajóslás Ido: kartomancio (io) Italian: cartomanzia f Japanese: トランプ占い (toranpu uranai) Korean: please add this translation if you can Maltese: kartomanzija f Polish: kartomancja f Portuguese: cartomancia (pt) f Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: cartomanție (ro) f Russian: гада́ние на ка́ртах n (gadánije na kártax) Spanish: cartomancia (es) f Swedish: spå i kort Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

References

• cartomancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913