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<blockquote data-quote="nedweenie" data-source="post: 13128" data-attributes="member: 324"><p>According to the Oxford English Dictionary, both mantids and mantises are ok for plural. Mantiss, mantis, &amp; mantid are ok (or I should say have been used) for singular. Of Greek origin, meaning prophet or diviner, "mantis" was first seen in written form in 1646 by a Sir T. Browne:</p><p></p><p>"One kinde of Locust..stands..in a large erectnesse..by Zoographers called mantis. "</p><p></p><p>Mantid showed up much later, in 1895, in reference to "Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi"in a publication called Athenæum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nedweenie, post: 13128, member: 324"] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, both mantids and mantises are ok for plural. Mantiss, mantis, & mantid are ok (or I should say have been used) for singular. Of Greek origin, meaning prophet or diviner, "mantis" was first seen in written form in 1646 by a Sir T. Browne: "One kinde of Locust..stands..in a large erectnesse..by Zoographers called mantis. " Mantid showed up much later, in 1895, in reference to "Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi"in a publication called Athenæum. [/QUOTE]
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