necromancia
See also: necromancía
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ne‧cro‧man‧ci‧a
Noun edit
necromancia f (plural necromancias)
- necromancy (divination involving the dead)
- Synonym: nigromancia
- necromancy (sorcery involving reanimating the dead)
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin necromantīa, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), from νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”); corresponding to necro- + -mancia.
Pronunciation edit
- 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
Noun edit
necromancia f (uncountable)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “necromancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014