necromancy

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• nĕkʹ-rə-măn'-si
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• /ˈnɛkɹəˌmænsi/
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Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نِكْرُومَانْسِيَّة (nikrūmānsiyya) — divination involving the dead
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: נְגִידָא — divination involving the dead
• Basque: nekromantzia — divination involving the dead
• Bulgarian: некромантия (nekromantija) — divination involving the dead
• Catalan: nigromància — divination involving the dead
• Cebuano: nekromansya — divination involving the dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 招魂術 /招魂术 (zhāohúnshù) — divination involving the dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 死靈術 /死灵术 — divination involving the dead
• Cornish: nygromons — divination involving the dead
• Czech: nekromancie — divination involving the dead
• Danish: nekromanti — divination involving the dead
• Dutch: dodenbezwering — divination involving the dead
• Esperanto: nekromancio — divination involving the dead
• Faroese: andamaning — divination involving the dead
• Finnish: nekromantia — divination involving the dead
• French: nécromancie — divination involving the dead
• Old French: nygromancie — divination involving the dead
• German: Totenbeschwörung — divination involving the dead
• German: Nekromantie — divination involving the dead
• German: Totenorakel — divination involving the dead
• Greek: νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía) — divination involving the dead
• Hebrew: אוֹב (ov) — divination involving the dead
• Hungarian: nekromanta — divination involving the dead
• Icelandic: andasæring — divination involving the dead
• Ido: nekromancio — divination involving the dead
• Indonesian: nekromansi — divination involving the dead
• Irish: marbhdhraíocht — divination involving the dead
• Italian: negromanzia — divination involving the dead
• Japanese: ネクロマンシー (nekuromanshī) — divination involving the dead
• Korean: 강령술 (gangnyeongsul) — divination involving the dead
• Latin: nigromantia — divination involving the dead
• Latin: necromantia — divination involving the dead
• Latvian: nekromantika — divination involving the dead
• Macedonian: некрома́нтија (nekromántija) — divination involving the dead
• Middle English: nigromancy — divination involving the dead
• Old English: sċīnlāc — divination involving the dead
• Old English: ġedwomer — divination involving the dead
• Polish: nekromancja — divination involving the dead
• Portuguese: necromancia — divination involving the dead
• Portuguese: nigromancia — divination involving the dead
• Romanian: necromanția — divination involving the dead
• Russian: некрома́нтия (nekromántija) — divination involving the dead
• Serbo-Croatian: некромантија — divination involving the dead
• Serbo-Croatian: nekromancija — divination involving the dead
• Slovak: nekromancia — divination involving the dead
• Spanish: nigromancia — divination involving the dead
• Spanish: necromancia — divination involving the dead
• Spanish: necromancía — divination involving the dead
• Spanish: nigromancía — divination involving the dead
• Swedish: nekromanti — divination involving the dead
• Tagalog: nekromansya — divination involving the dead
• Turkish: nekromansi — divination involving the dead
• Ukrainian: некрома́нтія (nekromántija) — divination involving the dead