Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μαντικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαντικός μαντική μαντικόν

Structure: μαντικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a soothsayer or his art, prophetic, oracular
  2. the faculty of divination, prophecy
  3. like a prophet, oracular

Examples

  • "οἱ μέντοι δοξάζοντεσ ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν θεὸν εἶναι, εἰκότωσ Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ γῇ κοινῶσ ἀνέθεσαν τὸ χρηστήριον, οἰόμενοι τὴν διάθεσιν καὶ κρᾶσιν ἐμποιεῖν τῇ γῇ τὸν ἥλιον, ἀφ’ ἧσ ἐκφέρεσθαι τὰσ μαντικὰσ ἀναθυμιάσεισ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 431)
  • ταύτησ τῆσ Κασσοτίδοσ δύεσθαί τε κατὰ τῆσ γῆσ λέγουσι τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀδύτῳ τοῦ θεοῦ τὰσ γυναῖκασ μαντικὰσ ποιεῖν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 14:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a soothsayer or his art

  2. like a prophet

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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