Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mantic

/ˈmantɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables: man-tic
IPA: /ˈmantɪk/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to divination; prophetic.

noun

A soothsayer, a seer.

Example Sentences

"[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."
"Surprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈmæntɪk/

Inflected Forms

more mantic (comparative) most mantic (superlative) mantics (plural)

Derived Forms

manticism

Synonyms

divinatory sibylline sibyllic vatic vatical

Rhymes With

romantic atlantic gigantic semantic frantic pedantic antic sycophantic willimantic marantic panromantic transromantic

Questions

How do you pronounce mantic?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmantɪk/.
What does mantic mean?: Relating to divination; prophetic.
Where does mantic come from?: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

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