The corpus record — Latin

necrŏmantīa

necrŏmantīa · f

an evoking of the dead

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

necrŏmantīa — Lewis & Short

necrŏmantīa (-ēa), ae, f., = nekromanteia,

I an evoking of the dead to reveal the future, necromancy, Lact. 2, 16 init., Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 35.—

II Necromantea Homeri, that part of the Odyssey in which Ulysses descends into the infernal regions, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 132.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.