# μαντεύομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From μάντις (mántis, “seer”) +‎ -εύομαι (-eúomai, “mediopassive of -εύω”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /man.těu̯.o.mai̯/ → /manˈte.βo.mɛ/ → /manˈde.vo.me/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /man.těu̯.o.mai̯/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /manˈte.wo.mɛ/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /manˈte.βo.mɛ/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /manˈte.vo.me/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /manˈde.vo.me/

### Verb

μᾰντεύομαι • (mănteúomai)
* to divine, prophesy
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 716
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.67
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.107
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.300
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.859
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.420
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.170
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.510
* to presage, forbode
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1367
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 765a27
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1373b7
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 411b
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 349a
* (of animals) to get scent of
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 21.45
* to consult an oracle, to seek divinations
** Aeshin., 3 107
** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 593
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 159
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 346
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 431
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.46
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.172
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.76
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.36
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.38
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.31
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.163
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 21a
* (of the god) to give an oracle
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 253
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet 19
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Soloecista 9
* (later Greek, in active and here in the passive) to give an oracle
** 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Ind. 11.5
** 200 CE – 400 CE, Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica 7.1
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.45
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.114
** 300 CE – 400 CE, Himerius, Orations 10.5
** 300 CE – 400 CE, Himerius, Orations 14.34
** 300 CE – 400 CE, Himerius, Orations 23.23
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 75
** 100 CE – 200 CE, Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale 5.4

#### Synonyms

* θριάομαι (thriáomai)

#### Derived terms

* ἀνᾰμᾰντεύομαι (anămănteúomai)
* ἀντιμᾰντεύομαι (antimănteúomai)
* ἀπομᾰντεύομαι (apomănteúomai)
* δῐᾰμᾰντεύομαι (dĭămănteúomai)
* ἐπιμᾰντεύομαι (epimănteúomai)
* κᾰτᾰμᾰντεύομαι (kătămănteúomai)
* προμᾰντεύομαι (promănteúomai)
* ὑπομᾰντεύομαι (hupomănteúomai)

#### Related terms

* ἀμάντευτος (amánteutos)
* μᾰντείᾱ (mănteíā)
* μάντευμᾰ (mánteumă)
* μᾰντευτέον (mănteutéon)
* μᾰντευτής (mănteutḗs)
* μᾰντευτικός (mănteutikós)
* μᾰντευτός (mănteutós)
* πολυμάντευτος (polumánteutos)

#### References

* “μαντεύομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μαντεύομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “μαντεύομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* μαντεύομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* μαντεύομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “μαντεύομαι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3132 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /manˈde.vo.me/
* Hyphenation: μα‧ντεύ‧ο‧μαι

### Verb

μαντεύομαι • (mantévomai) passive (past μαντεύτηκα, active μαντεύω)
* to be foretold
* to be guessed

#### Conjugation

    for this verb's full conjugation see the active form