The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥαβδομαντεία
- Latin · borrowed fromrhabdomantīa
- English todayrhabdomancy
From rhabdo- + -mancy, first attested in 1646. From Latin rhabdomantīa, from Ancient Greek ῥαβδομαντεία (rhabdomanteía), from ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.