Talk:prodigy

So is child prodigy a synomym? or just redundant? Kappa 03:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Adjective form

Does "prodigy" have an adjective form? You'd think it would be "prodigal", "prodigious", or "prodigial", but the first two mean other things, and the third word doesn't seem to exist. -Rrius 05:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

For many purposes the noun can be used as an attributive adjective and one can add (deprecated template usage) -like. English gives you options to overcome the occasional gap. The Latin stem for wasteful/extravagant was not too different from the one for wonder/marvel/omen. Prodigious once meant having to do with wonders, marvels, portents, but the modern sense took over the past few hundred years. DCDuring TALK 10:08, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

And there's precocious. DCDuring TALK 10:12, 17 November 2009 (UTC)