ἀστρολογία Ancient Greek · revision 3177

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=5th–4th century BC, Isocrates and Xenophon|origins=grc ἄστρον, grc λόγος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (5th-century BC Attic): /as.tro.lo.ɡí.aː/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /as.tro.loˈʝi.a/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /as.tro.loˈʝi.a/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ἀστρολογίᾱ''' (astrologíā) ''f'' (genitive ἀστρολογίᾱς); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[ἄστρον|tr=ástron|t=star]] and the element [[m|grc|-λογία|tr=-logía|t=study]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Isocrates and Xenophon use it for astronomy, the study of the stars as a branch of mathematics, useful for telling the time and for navigation.^(CGL 2021)^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Aristotle treats it as part of mathematics and physics, and mentions a “nautical astronomy”.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE) Diogenes Laertius gives a ''Nautical Astrology'' as the title of a work by Thales, and works of the same name were ascribed to Cleostratus and Aratus.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE) Polybius and Plutarch use it in the same sense.^(CGL 2021)

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+ Only later did it come to mean astrology, the reading of fate from the stars, as in Cicero and Sextus Empiricus.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE) Modern Greek [[m|el|αστρολογία|tr=astrología]] means astrology alone.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 5th–4th century BC – Isocrates and Xenophon use it for astronomy.^(CGL 2021)^(DGE)

+ * 4th century BC – Aristotle treats it as part of mathematics.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE)

+ * 2nd century BC – Polybius uses it for astronomy.^(CGL 2021)^(DGE)

+ * 1st century BC – Cicero uses it for astrology.^(DGE)

+ * 2nd–3rd century AD – Sextus Empiricus attacks astrology under this name.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|astronomy]], the systematic study of the stars.^(CGL 2021)^(LSJ 1940)

+ # ''(later)'' [[m|en|astrology]].^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ἄστρον|tr=ástron]]

+ * [[ἀστρονομία|tr=astronomía]]

+ * [[en|astrology]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}