prodigium

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Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
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."”

    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

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    Noun

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    prōdigium n (genitive prōdigiī or prōdigī); second declension

    1. omen, portent, prophetic sign
    2. prodigy, wonder
      Synonyms: mōnstrum, ostentum, portentum, mīrāculum, mīrum

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

    Descendants

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    • Catalan: prodigi
    • French: prodige
    • Italian: prodigio
    • Portuguese: prodígio
    • Romanian: prodigiu
    • Spanish: prodigio

    References

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    • 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[1], 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