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μάντις

Third declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάντις μάντεως

Structure: μαντι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mai/nomai

Sense

  1. seer, prophet, soothsayer
  2. mantis

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὦ μάντι, τοὔποσ ὡσ ἄρ’ ὀρθὸν ἤνυσασ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode19)
  • μάντι κακῶν οὐ πώ ποτέ μοι τὸ κρήγυον εἶπασ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 14:5)
  • Λακεδαιμονίοισι μὲν δὴ τοῦτο, τῷ δὲ μάντι τόδε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 228 4:1)
  • ἐκέλευσε σφέασ ὁ Ἀμφιάρεωσ διὰ χρηστηρίων ποιεύμενοσ ὁκότερα βούλονται ἑλέσθαι τούτων, ἑωυτῷ ἢ ἅτε μάντι χρᾶσθαι ἢ ἅτε συμμάχῳ, τοῦ ἑτέρου ἀπεχομένουσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 134 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. seer

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