μαντεῖον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μαντήϊον (mantḗïon) — Epic
Etymology
μάντις (mántis) + -εῖον (-eîon)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /man.têː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /manˈti.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /manˈti.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /manˈti.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /manˈdi.on/
Noun
μαντεῖον • (manteîon) n (genitive μαντείου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μᾰντεῖον tò mănteîon |
τὼ μᾰντείω tṑ mănteíō |
τᾰ̀ μᾰντεῖᾰ tằ mănteîă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μᾰντείου toû mănteíou |
τοῖν μᾰντείοιν toîn mănteíoin |
τῶν μᾰντείων tôn mănteíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μᾰντείῳ tōî mănteíōi |
τοῖν μᾰντείοιν toîn mănteíoin |
τοῖς μᾰντείοις toîs mănteíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μᾰντεῖον tò mănteîon |
τὼ μᾰντείω tṑ mănteíō |
τᾰ̀ μᾰντεῖᾰ tằ mănteîă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μᾰντεῖον mănteîon |
μᾰντείω mănteíō |
μᾰντεῖᾰ mănteîă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Greek: μαντείο (manteío) (learned)
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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- μαντεῖον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011