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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

  • καὶ τὸν Βαλαὰμ τὸν τοῦ Βεώρ, τὸν μάντιν, ἀπέκτειναν ἐν τῇ ροπῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 13:22)
  • ἐργάζεσθαι δὲ τὰ αὐτοῦ ἕκαστον, καὶ μήτε τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ἰᾶσθαι μήτε τὸν Ἀσκληπιὸν χρησμῳδεῖν μήτε τὸν Ἀπόλλω τοσαῦτα μόνον ^ ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ ἕν τι ἐπιλεξάμενον μάντιν ἢ κιθαρῳδὸν ἢ ἰατρὸν εἶναι. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 16:1)
  • καὶ μάντιν δέ ποτε ἰδὼν δημοσίᾳ ἐπὶ μισθῷ μαντευόμενον, Οὐχ ὁρῶ, ἔφη, ἐφ’ ὅτῳ τὸν μισθὸν ἀπαιτεῖσ· (Lucian, (no name) 37:1)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα εἴ τισ αὐτῇ ἀνατιθείη, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοι κἀμὲ μάντιν λέγων· (Lucian, 13:3)
  • καὶ Τειρεσίαν δὲ τὸν μάντιν ἡ τραγῳδία μέχρισ ἓξ γενεῶν παρατεῖναι λέγει. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. seer

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