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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὥρᾱ (hṓrā, “period of time”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔː.ros.kó.pos/ → /o.rosˈko.pos/ → /o.rosˈko.pos/
Noun
ὡροσκόπος • (hōroskópos) m (genitive ὡροσκόπου); second declension
- caster of nativities, astrologer
- (astrology) the sign or degree rising at the time of birth, ascendant
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Further reading
- ὡροσκόπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὡροσκόπος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ὡροσκόπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “ὡροσκόπος”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 1187