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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”), per J.B. Hoffman (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) perhaps reflecting earlier *μάτις (*mátis) with analogical restoration of the nasal (similar to that seen in χανδάνω (khandánō) < *χαδάνω (*khadánō)), from Proto-Hellenic *mə́tis, from Proto-Indo-European *mń̥tis (“(the act of) thinking, thought; mind”), from *men- (“to think, perceive”) + *-tis (deverbal noun-forming suffix) (whence -τις (-tis), -σις (-sis)), but Beekes is hesitant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mán.tis/ → /ˈman.tis/ → /ˈman.dis/
Noun
μᾰ́ντῐς • (mántis) m (genitive μᾰ́ντεως); third declension
- prophet or seer.
- mantis
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μάντις, -εως”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 902–903
- “μάντις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάντις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μάντις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μάντις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μάντις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μάντις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- boding idem, page 87.
- conjecturer idem, page 160.
- diviner idem, page 244.
- foreboding idem, page 336.
- guesser idem, page 378.
- presage idem, page 636.
- prescient idem, page 636.
- priestess idem, page 640.
- prophet idem, page 653.
- prophetess idem, page 653.
- prophetic idem, page 653.
- seer idem, page 750.