chironomia

English

Etymology

From Latin chīronomia, from Ancient Greek χειρονομία (kheironomía, “gesticulation”).

Noun

chironomia (uncountable)

1. (rare) Chironomy.
   • 2003, Frederick Burwick, in Robyn Asleson, Notorious Muse, Yale University Press 2003, p. 130:

     Studies of chironomia had, from Elizabethan times, replicated the same descriptions of arm and hand gestures with the same prescription for their rhetorical.

Italian

Etymology

From chiro- +‎ -nomia.

Noun

chironomia f (plural chironomie)

1. chironomy (theatrical hand waving)

Anagrams

• maiorchino