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Latin
Etymology
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Particularly: “OED: "A derivation from classical Latin āiō ‘I say yes’ has also been suggested, but this is untenable on both semantic and morphological grounds."”
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From prō- (prefix denoting a forward direction, something before or prior, or prominence) + aiō (“to say, speak”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns); compare and contrast with adagiō, later adagium, more likely of different formation.
Pronunciation
Noun
prōdigium n (genitive prōdigiī or prōdigī); second declension
- omen, portent, prophetic sign
- prodigy, wonder
- Synonyms: mōnstrum, ostentum, portentum, mīrāculum, mīrum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “prodigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prodigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prodigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to avert by expiatory sacrifices the effect of ominous portents: prodigia procurare (Liv. 22. 1)
- “prodigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “prodigium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN