necromantia

Latin

Alternative forms

• necromantea, necromantēa

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ne.kro.manˈtiː.a/, [nɛkrɔmän̪ˈt̪iːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ne.kro.manˈti.a/, [nekromän̪ˈt̪iːä]

Noun

necromantīa f (genitive necromantīae); first declension

1. necromancy
   • 303 CE – 311 CE, Lactantius, Institutiones Divinae 2.16.1:

     Eorum inuenta sunt astrologia et haruspicina et auguratio et ipsa quae dicuntur oracula et necromantia.

     • 1871 translation by William Fletcher

       These were the inventors of astrology, and soothsaying, and divination, and those productions which are called oracles, and necromancy […] }

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	necromantīa	necromantīae
genitive	necromantīae	necromantīārum
dative	necromantīae	necromantīīs
accusative	necromantīam	necromantīās
ablative	necromantīā	necromantīīs
vocative	necromantīa	necromantīae

Further reading

• “necromantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• necromantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• necromantia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016