Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μαντείη ‎(manteíē) (Epic)
• μαντηΐη ‎(mantēḯē) (Ionic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mantía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mantía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mãdía/

Noun

μαντείᾱ • ‎(manteíā) f ‎(genitive μαντείᾱς); first declension

1. prophecy, divination, oracle
2. The power to prophesy or divine

Inflection

Descendants

• English: -mancy
• Finnish: -mantia

References

• μαντεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μαντεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μαντεία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • divination idem, page 244.
  • forecast idem, page 336.
  • oracle idem, page 577.
  • prediction idem, page 633.
  • prognostication idem, page 653.
  • prophecy idem, page 653.
  • superstition idem, page 839.