different between aeromancy vs austromancy

English

Alternative forms

• Early Modern English: aeromancie, æromancy, aëromancy, aeromanty, eromancy, heromancy
• Forms containing "ë" are now obsolete.

Etymology

aero- +? -mancy, from Ancient Greek ????? (aéros, “air”) and ??????? (manteía, “prophecy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.??.mæn.si/

Noun

aeromancy (uncountable)

1. Divination by use of atmospheric conditions.
   • "heromancy" -- OED, 1546

     "If these apparitions are in the Ayre, then it is called Aeromancie." -- Astrologaster, J. Melton, 1620

   • "Have you a mind, quoth Her Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by..aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation..?" -- Works of Rabelais III, 1951

Related terms

• austromancy
• anemoscopy
• nephomancy
• ceraunoscopy
• chaomancy
• cometomancy
• meteoromancy

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin auster (“south wind”); austro- +? -mancy

Noun

austromancy (uncountable)

1. Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.

Hypernyms

• aeromancy

Related terms

• anemoscopy
• nephomancy

References

• austromancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.