heteromancia
Spanish
Alternative forms
- (uncommon) heteromancía
Etymology
From hetero- + -mancia, in reference to bird flight, from one side to the other.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eteɾoˈmanθja/ [e.t̪e.ɾoˈmãn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /eteɾoˈmansja/ [e.t̪e.ɾoˈmãn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -anθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ansja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: he‧te‧ro‧man‧cia
Noun
heteromancia f (uncountable)
- (uncommon) divination by the flight of birds
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “heteromancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024