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- Ancient Greek · derived fromκριθομαντεία“divination by barley”
- English todaycrithomancy
Ancient Greek κριθομαντεία (krithomanteía, “divination by barley”), from κριθή (krithḗ, “barley”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.