Word Origin Summary

Νεκρομαντεία is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• necromanzia

  Italian · derived from

• necromancia

  Spanish · derived from

• negromanzia

  Italian · derived from

• nekromansya

  Cebuano · derived from

• necromanție

  Romanian · borrowed from

• necromantia

  Latin · borrowed from

• nigromante

  Galician · derived from

• necromancy

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root