ὡροσκόπος

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɔː.ros.kó.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.rosˈko.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.rosˈko.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.rosˈko.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.rosˈko.pos/

Noun

ὡροσκόπος • (hōroskópos) m (genitive ὡροσκόπου); second declension

1. caster of nativities, astrologer
2. (astrology) the sign or degree rising at the time of birth, ascendant

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ὡροσκόπος; τοῦ ὡροσκόπου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὡροσκόπος ho hōroskópos	τὼ ὡροσκόπω tṑ hōroskópō	οἱ ὡροσκόποι hoi hōroskópoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὡροσκόπου toû hōroskópou	τοῖν ὡροσκόποιν toîn hōroskópoin	τῶν ὡροσκόπων tôn hōroskópōn
Dative	τῷ ὡροσκόπῳ tôi hōroskópōi	τοῖν ὡροσκόποιν toîn hōroskópoin	τοῖς ὡροσκόποις toîs hōroskópois
Accusative	τὸν ὡροσκόπον tòn hōroskópon	τὼ ὡροσκόπω tṑ hōroskópō	τοὺς ὡροσκόπους toùs hōroskópous
Vocative	ὡροσκόπε hōroskópe	ὡροσκόπω hōroskópō	ὡροσκόποι hōroskópoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὡροσκοπεῖον (hōroskopeîon)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Belarusian: гараско́п (haraskóp)
• → Czech: horoskop
• → Danish: horoskop
• → English: horoscope
• → Esperanto: horoskopo
• → Finnish: horoskooppi
• → French: horoscope
• → German: Horoskop
• → Hungarian: horoszkóp
• → Italian: oroscopo
• → Medieval Latin: horoscopus
• → Lithuanian: horoskòpas
• → Galician: horóscopo
• → Norwegian Bokmål: horoskop
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: horoskop
• → Polish: horoskop
• → Portuguese: horóscopo
• → Serbo-Croatian: horoskop
• → Spanish: horóscopo
• → Swedish: horoskop
• → Tagalog: horoskop

Further reading

• ὡροσκόπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὡροσκόπος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] 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