sorcery

English

Etymology

From Middle English sorcery, borrowed from Middle French sorcerie, ultimately derived from Latin sors (“fate”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sort, line up”). Compare also French sorcier.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sôr'sərē, IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹ.sə.ɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔː.sə.ɹi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

sorcery (countable and uncountable, plural sorceries)

1. Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.

Synonyms

• black magic
• magic
• witchcraft
• wizardry
• warlockry
• wizardcraft
• hexcraft
• spellcraft
• spellcasting

Related terms

• sorcerer
• sorceress
• sort

Translations

magical power

• Akkadian: 𒆠𒅖𒁍 m pl (kišpū)
• Arabic: سِحْر (ar) m (siḥr)

  Egyptian Arabic: سحر (siḥr)

• Armenian: կախարդություն (hy) (kaxardutʻyun)
• Burmese: ပယောဂ (my) (pa.yau:ga.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 妖術／妖术 (zh) (yāoshù), 妖术 (zh) (yāoshù), 巫術／巫术 (zh) (wūshù), 巫术 (zh) (wūshù), 魔術／魔术 (zh) (móshù), 魔术 (zh) (móshù), 魔法 (zh) (mófǎ)

• Dutch: tovenarij (nl) f, hekserij (nl) f, wichelarij (nl) f
• Esperanto: sorĉado
• Ewe: dzosasa
• Finnish: noituus (fi), noitavoima
• French: sorcellerie (fr) f
• Galician: magacía f, meiguería (gl) f, feiticeiría f, xorxinería f, bruxeiría f, bruxaría (gl) f, bruxedo m
• German: Zauberei (de) f, Hexerei (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌴𐌹 f (lubjaleisei)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: γοητεία f (goēteía)

• Italian: stregoneria (it) f
• Japanese: 魔術 (ja) (まじゅつ, majutsu), 巫術 (ふじゅつ, fujutsu), 魔法 (ja) (まほう, mahō)
• Korean: 마법 (ko) (mabeop) (魔法 (ko)), 요술 (ko) (yosul) (妖術 (ko))
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: veneficium n, magice, artes magicae f pl, artes magae f pl, maleficium, magia (la)
• Maori: mākutu, whaiwhaiā
• Middle Persian: yʾtwkyh (jādūgīh)
• Ngarrindjeri: ngadhungi
• Norman: chorchell'lie f
• Persian: جادو (fa) (jâdu), فرهست (fa) (farhast)
• Polish: czary (pl), czarnoksięstwo (pl) n, czarna magia (pl) f, magia (pl) f
• Portuguese: feitiçaria (pt) f, bruxaria (pt), bruxedo m, magia (pt) f, mágica (pt) f
• Russian: колдовство́ (ru) n (koldovstvó), волшебство́ (ru) n (volšebstvó), ча́ры (ru) f pl (čáry), ма́гия (ru) f (mágija), ворожба́ (ru) f (vorožbá), чароде́йство (ru) n (čarodéjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: врачарство n, врачање n, врачарија f, враџбина f

  Roman: vračarstvo n, vračanje (sh) n, vračarija (sh) f, vradžbina (sh) f

• Spanish: brujería (es) f, magia (es) f
• Swedish: trolldom (sv) c
• Turkish: büyü (tr), yada (tr), efsun (tr), sihir (tr)
• Vietnamese: yêu thuật (vi) (妖術), ma thuật (vi) (魔術)

See also

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• sorcerye, sorcerie, sorcere, socerry, soserye, socerye

Etymology

From Middle French sorcerie, from Old French sorcerie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔrsəˈriː(ə)/, /sɔrsəˈreː(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /sɔsəˈriː(ə)/, /sɔsəˈreː(ə)/

Noun

sorcery (plural sorceries)

1. sorcery, wizardry, magic
2. A supernatural event

Related terms

• sorcerere
• sorceresse

Descendants

• English: sorcery
• Scots: sorcery

References

• “sorcerī(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.