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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

  • ἐκεῖνο δέ γε θαυμάζω, ὅπωσ μάντισ ὢν οὐ προεγίγνωσκεσ ἐπὶ τούτοισ κολασθησόμενοσ. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 20:5)
  • ἦν γάρ ποτε χρόνοσ, ὅτε καὶ μάντισ ἐδόκουν αὐτοῖσ καὶ ἰατρὸσ καὶ πάντα ὅλωσ ἦν ἐγώ, μεσταὶ δὲ Διὸσ πᾶσαι μὲν ἀγυιαί, πᾶσαι δὲ ἀνθρώπων ἀγοραί· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 24:7)
  • οὔτοι πέφυκα μάντισ, ὥστε μὴ κλύων ἐξιστορῆσαι σῶν ὁδὸν βουλευμάτων. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics16)
  • ὁ Θρῃξὶ μάντισ εἶπε Διόνυσοσ τάδε. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 8:16)
  • αὐτὸσ γοῦν ὁ μάντισ ἠγνόει μὲν ὅτι φονεύσει τὸν ἐρώμενον τῷ δίσκῳ, οὐ προεμαντεύσατο δὲ ὡσ φεύξεται αὐτὸν ἡ Δάφνη, καὶ ταῦτα οὕτω καλὸν καὶ κομήτην ὄντα. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. seer

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