prophetia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proˈpʰe.ti.a/, [prɔˈpʰɛt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈfet.t͡si.a/, [proˈfɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

prophētīa f (genitive prophētīae); first declension

1. prophecy, prediction

   Synonyms: praedictiō, praedictum, fātum

2. prophets as a group

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prophētīa	prophētīae
Genitive	prophētīae	prophētīārum
Dative	prophētīae	prophētīīs
Accusative	prophētīam	prophētīās
Ablative	prophētīā	prophētīīs
Vocative	prophētīa	prophētīae

Descendants

• Corsican: prufezia, profezia
• Emilian: profezî
• Franco-Provençal: profècie
• Friulian: profezìe
• Istriot: prufaseîa
• Italian: profezia
• Ladin: profezia
• Neapolitan: prufezia
• Old Catalan: profecia
  • Catalan: profecia
• Old French: prophetie
  • Norman: prophésie (Guernésiais)
  • → Middle English: prophecie
    • English: prophecy
  • Middle French:
    • French: prophétie
  • Walloon: prophécèie
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: profecía
  • Mirandese: profecie, porfecie
• Old Galician-Portuguese: profecia
  • Galician: profecía
  • Portuguese: profecia
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: profesia
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: profesia
  • Spanish: profecía
• Piedmontese: professìa
• Romanian: profeție
• Romansch: profezia
• Sardinian: profetzia

References

• “prophetia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prophetia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• prophetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.