νεκρόμαντις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From νεκρο- (nekro-, “dead”) + μάντις (mántis, “prophet”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ne.kró.man.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /neˈkro.man.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /neˈkro.man.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /neˈkro.man.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /neˈkro.man.dis/
Noun
[edit]νεκρόμᾰντῐς • (nekrómantis) m (genitive νεκρομᾰ́ντεως); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ νεκρόμᾰντῐς ho nekrómantis |
τὼ νεκρομᾰ́ντει tṑ nekromántei |
οἱ νεκρομᾰ́ντεις hoi nekrománteis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νεκρομᾰ́ντεως toû nekrománteōs |
τοῖν νεκρομᾰντέοιν toîn nekromantéoin |
τῶν νεκρομᾰ́ντεων tôn nekrománteōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νεκρομᾰ́ντει tôi nekromántei |
τοῖν νεκρομᾰντέοιν toîn nekromantéoin |
τοῖς νεκρομᾰ́ντεσῐ / νεκρομᾰ́ντεσῐν toîs nekromántesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν νεκρόμᾰντῐν tòn nekrómantin |
τὼ νεκρομᾰ́ντει tṑ nekromántei |
τοὺς νεκρομᾰ́ντεις toùs nekrománteis | ||||||||||
Vocative | νεκρόμᾰντῐ nekrómanti |
νεκρομᾰ́ντει nekromántei |
νεκρομᾰ́ντεις nekrománteis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- Italian: necromante, negromante
Further reading
[edit]- “νεκρόμαντις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *neḱ-
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (think)
- Ancient Greek compound terms
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension