astrologia Latin · revision 4055

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Varro|origins=grc ἀστρολογία}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [as.trɔˈɫɔ.ɡi.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [as.troˈlɔː.d͡ʒi.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''astrologia''' ''f'' (genitive astrologiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἀστρολογία|tr=astrología|t=astronomy, astrology]], from [[m|grc|ἄστρον|tr=ástron|t=star]] and [[m|grc|-λογία|tr=-logía|t=treating of]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro, in his work on agriculture, says that astronomy received the Goats into the sky not far from the Bull, and Cicero uses it often.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was the science of the heavenly bodies, astronomy, which the OLD notes cannot be told apart from astrology.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it was the classical word for what was later called [[astronomia]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny records that Atlas, or according to others the Egyptians or Assyrians, invented it, and also uses it of a work on astronomy ascribed to Hesiod.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Jerome is the first to use it only for astrology, the art of divination from the stars.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Isidore of Seville distinguished ''astronomia'', the study of the revolution of the sky and the motions of the stars, from ''astrologia'', which he said was partly natural and partly superstitious, the latter followed by the ''mathematici'' who cast horoscopes.^(TLL) Medieval Latin used it for both astronomy and astrology, and the neuter plural ''astrologia'' for books on astrology.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)^(DMLBS) English ''astrology'' is recorded in the late 14th century, first including scientific observation of the heavens.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of astronomy.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in De divinatione and De officiis.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome uses it of astrology alone.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville distinguishes it from astronomy.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''astrology'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|astronomy]], the study of the heavenly bodies.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A work on astronomy.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' [[m|en|astrology]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[astrologicus]]

+ * [[astrologus]]

+ * [[astrum]]

+ * [[en|astrology]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}