cartomancy

English

Etymology

Compare French cartomancie. See card and -mancy.

Noun

cartomancy (uncountable)

1. Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 91:

     These travelling magicians [...] rarely penetrated more deeply into magic than cartomancy, palmistry and the like.

Derived terms

• cartomancer

 

Related terms

• cartomantic

Translations

fortune-telling using cards

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: cartomància (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紙牌卜卦 / 纸牌卜卦 (zh) (zhǐpái bǔguà), 紙牌占卜 (zh) (zhǐpái zhānbǔ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: kaartleggen n, cartomancie f
• Finnish: korteista ennustaminen
• French: cartomancie (fr) f
• Galician: cartomancia (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kartenlegen n, aus den Karten lesen. (possibly also: Kartomantie (de) f - but extremely uncommon.)
• Greek: χαρτομαντεία (el) f (chartomanteía)
• Hungarian: kártyavetés (hu), kártyajóslás
• Ido: kartomancio (io)
• Italian: cartomanzia f
• Japanese: トランプ占い (toranpu uranai)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: kartomanzija f
• Polish: kartomancja f
• Portuguese: cartomancia (pt) f
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: cartomanție (ro) f
• Russian: гада́ние на ка́ртах n (gadánije na kártax)
• Spanish: cartomancia (es) f
• Swedish: spå i kort
• Vietnamese: phép bói bài

References

• “cartomancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.