The corpus record

μαντ-εῖος

manteios

oracular, prophetic

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Where it lives

Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant

μαντ-εῖος · mant-eios — LSJ

oracular, prophetic

oracular, prophetic, βωμός, μυχός, Pi. O. 6.5, P. 5.69, etc.; στέφη A. Ag. 1265; ἕδρα E. l.c.; τρίπους Pae.Delph. 18; ἐπʼ Ἰσμηνοῦ τε μαντείᾳ σποδῷ, of the altarʼs embers, S. OT 21; μ. ἄναξ, i.e. Apollo, E. Tr. 454, cf. Or. 1666, Ar. Av. 722.

In the wild

μαντεῖα · manteia Aeschylus, Eumenides 715–716
μαντεῖα · manteia Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 829–834
μαντεῖε · manteie Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 1146)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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