catoptromancy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1660, Urquhart tr. Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. Her Trippa going on in his Discourse, said by Catoptromancy, likewise held in such account by the Emperor Didius Julianus, That by means thereof, he ever and anon foresaw all that which at any time did happen or befal unto him: Thou shalt not need to put on thy Spectacles; for in a Mirror thou wilt see her as clearly and manifestly Nebrundiated, and Billibodring-it, as if I should shew it in the Fountain of the Temple of Minerva near Parras."
- "Catoptromancy was a species of divination performed by the aid of a mirror. This..was common among the Achaians."
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “mirror”) + -mancy.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: κάτοπτρον
Usage
Inflected Forms
catoxtromancy (alternative)
cattobomancy (alternative)
cataptromancy (alternative)
catoptromancie (alternative)
catoptiomancy (alternative)