nigromante

• legrumante, lugrumante

A semi-learned borrowing, from Latin necromantia.

• IPA^(key): [niɣɾoˈmantɪ]

nigromante m or f by sense (plural nigromantes)

1. necromancer
2. (figurative) despicable person

• nigromancia

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nigromante”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nigromante”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nigromante”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Italian nigromante, from Ancient Greek νεκρόμαντις (nekrómantis).

• Hyphenation: ni‧gro‧man‧te

nigromante m or f by sense (plural nigromantes)

1. necromancer

   Synonym: necromante

• necromancia

• “nigromante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Italian nigromante, from Ancient Greek νεκρόμαντις (nekrómantis).

• IPA^(key): /niɡɾoˈmante/ [ni.ɣ̞ɾoˈmãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: ni‧gro‧man‧te

nigromante m or f by sense (plural nigromantes)

1. necromancer

• “nigromante”, 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