Etymograph

English

armomancy

Armomancy comes from Latin armus ‘shoulder blade’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *ar(a)mos.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ar(a)mosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEarmus‘shoulder blade’
  3. Englishtodayarmomancy

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ar(a)mosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEarmus‘shoulder blade’
  3. Englishtodayarmomancy

Formed from -mancy

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’

order, reason, ready, rate, art, article, army, artist, ratio, ordinary, arm, coordination, alarm, coordinate, harmony, arthritis, subordinate, ordination, articulate, armor, ornament, arithmetic, ornate, anarchy, inertia, aristocratic, inert, adorn, articulation, artisan, ordinate, harmonic, ordinator, harmonious, ordinal, rta, armament, rime, ordain, artifice, 80 more

Today it means

noun Divination using the shoulder blade of an animal. It was taken from a dead animal and thrown into a fire, and the cracks formed in the bone were then interpreted.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *ar(a)mos / armomancy

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