μάντις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mán.tis/ → /ˈman.tis/ → /ˈman.tis/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /mán.tis/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tis/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tis/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tis/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tis/

Noun

μᾰ́ντῐς • (mántis) m (genitive μᾰ́ντεως); third declension

1. seer, prophet, soothsayer
2. mantis

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ μᾰ́ντῐς; τοῦ μᾰ́ντεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μᾰ́ντῐς ho mántis	τὼ μᾰ́ντει / μᾰ́ντεε tṑ mántei / mántee	οἱ μᾰ́ντεις / μᾰ́ντεες hoi mánteis / mántees
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰ́ντεως toû mánteōs	τοῖν μᾰντέοιν toîn mantéoin	τῶν μᾰ́ντεων tôn mánteōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰ́ντει / μᾰ́ντεῐ̈ tôi mántei / mánteï	τοῖν μᾰντέοιν toîn mantéoin	τοῖς μᾰ́ντεσῐ(ν) toîs mántesi(n)
Accusative	τὸν μᾰ́ντῐν tòn mántin	τὼ μᾰ́ντει / μᾰ́ντεε tṑ mántei / mántee	τοὺς μᾰ́ντεις toùs mánteis
Vocative	μᾰ́ντῐ mánti	μᾰ́ντει / μᾰ́ντεε mántei / mántee	μᾰ́ντεις / μᾰ́ντεες mánteis / mántees
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• 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^[1], 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.