νεκῠο-μαντεῖον · nekyo-manteion — LSJ
oracle of the dead
oracle of the dead, where ghosts were called up, Hdt. 5.92.ηʹ, Cic. Tusc. 1.16.37, D.S. 4.22, Plu. Cim. 6, Paus. 9.30.6: in pl., PMag.Lond. 121.285.
The corpus record
νεκῠο-μαντεῖον
nekuomanteion · τό
oracle of the dead
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- νεκυομαντήιον · nekyomantēion Herodotus, Histories 5.92G.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6007)
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.