The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκιά“shadow”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromsciomantia
- English todaysciomancy
From Late Latin sciomantia, from Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκιά all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.