cartomancy

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cartomancy

Etymology

Compare French cartomancie. See card and -mancy.

Noun

cartomancy (uncountable)

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.

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