astrologer

UK/əˈstɹɒl.ə.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

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Other forms: astrologers

An astrologer is somebody who reads the future in the stars. Consult an astrologer.

For centuries the same people did astronomy and astrology, and the two only separated slowly. An astrologer was employed at most European courts well into the seventeenth century.

Definitions of astrologer

1nounastrologerSomebody who reads the future in the stars.B2+
“The king kept an astrologer on the payroll for thirty years.”

astrologer is a person.

Where it comes from

Latin astrologus comes from Greek astron, a star, plus logos, a discourse.

Middle English
astrologer,astrologier,astrologere
English, today
astrologer

From Middle English astrologer,astrologier,astrologere, formed from Middle English astrologie or Latin astrologus + Middle English -ere, equivalent to astrology + -er. Ousted imported Middle English astrologien (“astrologer”), borrowed from Old French astrologien. tungolwītga.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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astrologer in the wild

While he was not a major innovator, his practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium.
Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
Abu Bakr al-Hassan ibn al-Khasib, also al-Khaseb, Albubather in Latin, was a Persian physician and astrologer of the 9th century.
Albubather
Sahl ibn Bishr al-Israili was a Jewish or Syriac Christian astrologer, astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan.
Sahl ibn Bishr
Nila-kantha was a 16th-century astrologer and astronomer and Sanskrit writer from the Mughal Empire of present-day India.
Nilakantha Daivajna
Steven Forrest is an American astrologer, writer, and lecturer.
Steven Forrest (astrologer)

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