νεκρόμαντις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
νεκρο- (nekro-, “necro-”, “dead”) + μάντις (mántis, “prophet”, “soothsayer”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ne.kró.man.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /nɛˈkro.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
νεκρόμᾰντῐς • (nekrómantis) m (genitive νεκρομᾰ́ντεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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(ν) toîs nekromántesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν νεκρόμᾰντῐν tòn nekrómantin |
τὼ νεκρομᾰ́ντει tṑ nekromántei |
τοὺς νεκρομᾰ́ντεις toùs nekrománteis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νεκρόμᾰντῐ nekrómanti |
νεκρομᾰ́ντει nekromántei |
νεκρομᾰ́ντεις nekrománteis | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Italian: necromante, negromante
Further reading
- νεκρόμαντις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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