mantis

See also: Mantis

English

A burying mantis, Sphodropoda tristis

Alternative forms

• mantid

Etymology

From New Latin mantis, from Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “soothsayer”). Distant doublet of mind via Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæntɪs/

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Noun

mantis (plural mantises or mantes)

1. Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.
2. A green colour, like that of many mantises.

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Synonyms

• (insect): rearhorse

Derived terms

• Chinese mantis
• flower mantis
• mantis crab
• mantis shrimp
• praying mantis
• Skinner's ground mantis

 

Translations

any of various large insects of the order Mantodea

• Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ m (faras an-nabiyy), سُرْعُوف m (surʕūf)

  Hijazi Arabic: سَرْعُوف m (sarʕūf)

• Armenian: աղոթարար (hy) (aġotʻarar)
• Assamese: গাগিনী (gagini)
• Azerbaijani: dəvədəlləyi
• Belarusian: багамо́л m (bahamól)
• Bulgarian: богомо́лка f (bogomólka)
• Catalan: pregadeu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螳螂 (zh) (tángláng), 刀螂 (zh) (dāolang)

• Corsican: ghjumenta di preti
• Czech: kudlanka (cs) f
• Danish: knæler (da) c
• Dutch: bidsprinkhaan (nl) m
• Esperanto: manto (eo)
• Finnish: rukoilijasirkka (fi)
• French: mante (fr) f
• Galician: barbantesa (gl) f, galbana (gl) f
• Georgian: ჩოქელა (čokela)
• German: Gottesanbeterin (de) f, Fangschrecke f
• Greek:

  Ancient: μάντις m (mántis)

• Italian: mantide (it) f
• Japanese: 螳螂, 蟷螂 (ja) (かまきり, カマキリ, kamakiri, とうろう, tōrō)
• Kazakh: дәуіт (däuıt)
• Korean: 사마귀 (ko) (samagwi), 당랑(螳螂) (ko) (dangnang)
• Lithuanian: maldininkas m
• Macedonian: богомолка f (bogomolka)
• Malay: mentadak
• Manchu: ᡥᡝᠯᡳᠶᡝᠨ (heliyen)
• Maori: rō, whē
• Mongolian: цөгөрцөг (cögörcög)
• Nandi: chepkoima
• Navajo: Naakaii náázééł
• Norwegian: kneler m
• Persian: آخوندک (fa) (âxundak)
• Polish: modliszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: louva-a-deus (pt) m, mantídeo m
• Romanian: călugăriță (ro) f
• Russian: богомо́л (ru) m (bogomól)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: богомољка f

  Roman: bogomoljka (sh) f

• Slovak: kudlanka f
• Slovene: bogomoljka f
• Spanish: mantis (es) f, mantis religiosa (es), santateresa (es) f, (South América) mamboretá (es) f, mantodeo m (scientific)
• Sundanese: ᮎᮧᮀᮎᮧᮛᮀ (congcorang)
• Swedish: bönsyrsa (sv)
• Ukrainian: богомо́л m (bohomól)
• Vietnamese: bọ ngựa (vi) (蜅馭), ngựa trời (馭𡗶)
• Welsh: mantis m
• Zulu: isithwalambiza class 7/8

Anagrams

• MASINT, Mastin, Matins, Tamsin, manist, matins, santim, stamin, tamins

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmantis/ [ˈmãn̪.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -antis
• Syllabification: man‧tis

Noun

mantis f (plural mantis)

1. mantis

Derived terms

• mantis religiosa

 

Further reading

• “mantis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014