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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía).
Pronunciation
Noun
necromantīa f (genitive necromantīae); first declension
- necromancy
303 CE – 311 CE,
Lactantius,
Institutiones Divinae 2.16.1:
- Eorum inuenta sunt astrologia et haruspicina et auguratio et ipsa quae dicuntur oracula et necromantia.
- 1871 translation by William Fletcher
- These were the inventors of astrology, and soothsaying, and divination, and those productions which are called oracles, and necromancy }[1]
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
Further reading
- “necromantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- necromantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- necromantia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016