-mancia
Spanish
Alternative forms
- -mancía (rare)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin -mantia, from Ancient Greek μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmanθja/ [ˈmãn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /ˈmansja/ [ˈmãn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -anθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ansja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: -man‧cia
Suffix
-mancia f (noun-forming suffix, plural -mancias)
Derived terms
Spanish terms suffixed with -mancia
Further reading
- “-mancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024