necromancia
See also: necromancía
Portuguese
Noun
necromancia f (plural necromancias)
- necromancy (divination involving the dead)
- Synonym: nigromancia
- necromancy (sorcery involving reanimating the dead)
Spanish
Alternative forms
- necromancía, nigromancia, nigromancía
Etymology
From Late Latin necromantīa, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), from νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /nekɾoˈmanθja/ [ne.kɾoˈmãn̟.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /nekɾoˈmansja/ [ne.kɾoˈmãn.sja]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -anθja
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ansja
- Syllabification: ne‧cro‧man‧cia
Related terms
Further reading
- “necromancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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