Etymology
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From Middle English prophetesse, from Old French prophetesse, from Late Latin prophetissa. By surface analysis, prophet + -ess.
Pronunciation
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prophetess (plural prophetesses, masculine prophet)
- A female prophet.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 138:What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy.
Translations
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female prophet
- Armenian: մարգարեուհի (hy) (margareuhi)
- Asturian: profeta (ast)
- Belarusian: праро́чыца f (praróčyca)
- Bulgarian: проро́чица f (proróčica)
- Czech: věštkyně (cs) f, prorokyně f
- Danish: profetinde c
- Esperanto: profetino
- Finnish: naisprofeetta; profeetta (fi) (gender neutral)
- French: prophétesse (fr) f
- Galician: profetisa (gl) f
- German: Prophetin (de) f, Weissagerin f
- Gothic: 𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 f (praufēteis)
- Greek:
- Ancient: προφῆτις f (prophêtis)
- Hungarian: prófétanő (hu)
- Irish: banfháidh m, fáidhbhean f
- Italian: profetessa (it) f
- Japanese: 女預言者 (おんなよげんしゃ, onna yogensha)
- Latin: prophētissa f, prophētis f, vāticinātrīx f
- Macedonian: проро́чица f (proróčica)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: profetinne m or f, spåkone m or f
- Nynorsk: profetinne f, spåkone f
- Polish: prorokini (pl) f
- Portuguese: profetisa (pt) f
- Romanian: profetă f
- Russian: проро́чица (ru) f (proróčica), предсказа́тельница (ru) f (predskazátelʹnica)
- Scottish Gaelic: ban-fhàidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пророчица f
- Roman: pròročica (sh) f
- Slovak: prorokyňa f
- Slovene: prerokinja f
- Spanish: profetisa (es) f
- Swedish: profetissa (sv) c, sierska (sv) c
- Ukrainian: проро́чиця (uk) f (proróčycja)
- Volapük: jiprofetan
- Welsh: proffwydes f
- Yiddish: נבֿיאה f (neviye)
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