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 (ʾabrāj)
• Bashkir: йондоҙнамә (yondoðnamä)
• Catalan: horòscop m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 占星 (zh), 星座運勢

• 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 (zh), 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.