Noun: mantis
| Singular | mantis |
| Plural | mantises; mantes |
Sample Sentences
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The scientists then allowed the males from one group of mantises to mate with females from the other. [2016 June 28, Nicola Davis, “Having your partner for dinner? Mantis cannibalism boosts fertility – study”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2017:]
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Don’t get me wrong: I love mantises so much it is pathetic. They have that quality, like some views of a beautiful city, where it feels that you are seeing them for the first time, every time. Each mantis looks so perfect, so whole and individual. [2021 May 27, Helen Sullivan, “A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023:]
Nouns inflected like mantis
micropenis,
heliopsis,
European mantis,
praying mantis,
penis,
fremesis,
biophotolysis,
renal pelvis,
mantis,
clavis,
acanthopelvis,
pelvis,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *men-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
4. Proto-Indo-European *méntis
5. Proto-Hellenic *mə́tis
6. Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis)bor.
7. Latin mantisbor.
8. English mantis
9. From New Latin mantis, from Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “soothsayer”). Distant doublet of mind via Proto-Indo-European *méntis. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
μάντις'.