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  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
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    • 1.4.1 Derived terms
    • 1.4.2 Translations
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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:mantisWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• mantid

Etymology

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From New Latin mantis, from Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “soothsayer”). Distant doublet of mind via Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈmæntɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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mantis (countable and uncountable, plural mantises or mantes)

1. Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs. Synonym: (archaic) rear-horse
2. (uncountable) A green colour, like that of many mantises. (Can we add an example for this sense?) mantis:  

Derived terms

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• Chinese mantis
• flower mantis
• mantis crab
• mantisfly
• mantislike
• mantis shrimp
• praying mantis
• sea mantis
• Skinner's ground mantis

Translations

[edit] any of various large insects of the order Mantodea

Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ m (faras an-nabiyy), سُرْعُوف m (surʕūf) Hijazi Arabic: سَرْعُوف m (sarʕūf) Armenian: աղոթարար (hy) (aġotʻarar) Assamese: গাগিনী (gagini) Azerbaijani: dəvədəlləyi Belarusian: багамо́л m (bahamól) Bulgarian: богомо́лка f (bogomólka) Catalan: pregadeu (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 螳螂 (zh) (tángláng), 刀螂 (zh) (dāolang) Corsican: ghjumenta di preti Czech: kudlanka (cs) f Danish: knæler (da) c Dutch: bidsprinkhaan (nl) m Esperanto: manto (eo) Finnish: rukoilijasirkka (fi) French: mante (fr) f Galician: barbantesa (gl) f, galbana (gl) f Georgian: ჩოქელა (čokela) German: Gottesanbeterin (de) f, Fangschrecke f Greek: Ancient: μάντις m (mántis) Italian: mantide (it) f Japanese: 螳螂 (ja), 蟷螂 (ja) (かまきり, カマキリ, kamakiri, とうろう, tōrō) Kazakh: дәуіт (däuıt) Korean: 사마귀 (ko) (samagwi), 당랑(螳螂) (ko) (dangnang) Lithuanian: maldininkas m Macedonian: богомолка f (bogomolka) Malay: mentadak (ms) Manchu: ᡥᡝᠯᡳᠶᡝᠨ (heliyen) Maori: rō, whē Mongolian: цөгөрцөг (cögörcög) Nandi: chepkoima Navajo: Naakaii náázééł Norwegian: kneler m Persian: آخوندک (fa) (âxundak) Polish: modliszka (pl) f Portuguese: louva-a-deus (pt) m, mantídeo m Romanian: călugăriță (ro) f Russian: богомо́л (ru) m (bogomól) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: богомољка f Roman: bogomoljka (sh) f Slovak: kudlanka f Slovene: bogomoljka f Spanish: mantis (es) f, mantis religiosa (es), santateresa (es) f, (South América) mamboretá (es) f, mantodeo m (scientific), campamocha (es) f (Mexico) Sundanese: ᮎᮧᮀᮎᮧᮛᮀ (congcorang) Swedish: bönsyrsa (sv) Tày: càn mạ, mèng mạ, hảm khoan Ukrainian: богомо́л m (bohomól) Vietnamese: bọ ngựa (vi) (蜅馭), ngựa trời (馭𡗶) Welsh: mantis m Zulu: isithwalambiza class 7/8

See also

[edit] extant orders of insects in English

• jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
• cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
• beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
• earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
• flies, dipterans (Diptera)
• webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
• mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
• ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
• true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
• hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
• butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
• mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
• mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
• scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
• megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
• neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
• damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
• orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
• stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
• stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
• booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
• snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
• fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
• strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
• thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
• caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
• zorapterans (Zoraptera)
• silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)

Anagrams

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• MASINT, Mastin, Matins, Tamsin, manist, matins, santim, stamin, tamins

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈmantis/ [ˈmãn̪.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -antis
• Syllabification: man‧tis

Noun

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mantis f (plural mantis)

1. mantis

Derived terms

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• mantis religiosa

Further reading

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• “mantis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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