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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
μάντις (mántis) + -εῖον (-eîon)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /man.têː.on/ → /manˈti.on/ → /manˈdi.on/
Noun
μαντεῖον • (manteîon) n (genitive μαντείου); second declension
- oracle
Declension
Adjective
μαντεῖον • (manteîon)
- inflection of μαντεῖος (manteîos):
- masculine accusative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
Further reading
- μαντεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μαντεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “μαντεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011