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Where does “nigromancie” come from?

nigromancie (Middle French) comes from Latin Niger, from Proto-Indo-European negʷ- — bare, naked.

nigromancie (Middle French): nigromancy

Definitions

  1. nigromancy

Ancestry of “nigromancie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinNiger—
2Proto-Indo-Europeannegʷ-bare, naked
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