necromancia

• Hyphenation: ne‧cro‧man‧ci‧a

necromancia f (plural necromancias)

1. necromancy (divination involving the dead)

   Synonym: nigromancia

2. necromancy (sorcery involving reanimating the dead)

• necromancía, nigromancia, nigromancía

Borrowed from Late Latin necromantīa, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), from νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”); corresponding to necro- +‎ -mancia.

• IPA^(key): /nekɾoˈmanθja/ [ne.kɾoˈmãn̟.θja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /nekɾoˈmansja/ [ne.kɾoˈmãn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -anθja (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ansja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ne‧cro‧man‧cia

necromancia f (uncountable)

1. necromancy

• “necromancia”, 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