mantic

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See also: -mantic

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mănʹtĭk:
    • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈmæntɪk/
    • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈmantɪk/

Adjective

mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)

  1. Relating to divination; prophetic.
    • 1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine:
      [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.

Derived terms

Noun

mantic (plural mantics)

  1. A soothsayer, a seer.
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