prophetic

English

Alternative forms

• prophetical
• prophetick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós), equivalent to prophet +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛtɪk/

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Adjective

prophetic (not comparable)

1. Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

     [Ghost] But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting / Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne. / Ham. O my prophetike soule, my uncle! my uncle!

2. Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
3. Predicted, as by a prophecy.
   • 1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     And fears are oft prophetic of the event.

Derived terms

• prophetic week
• propheticness

Translations

of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet

• Asturian: proféticu (ast)
• Belarusian: праро́чы (praróčy)
• Bulgarian: пророчески (bg) (proročeski)
• Catalan: profètic
• Czech: prorocký
• Esperanto: profeta (eo)
• Finnish: enne-, profetinen (relating to a prophecy), profeetallinen (relating to a prophet)
• French: prophétique (fr)
• Galician: profético (gl)
• German: prophetisch
• Greek:

  Ancient: προφητικός (prophētikós), χρηστήριος (khrēstḗrios)

• Hungarian: profetikus (hu)
• Irish: fáidhiúil, tairngeartach
• Italian: profetico (it)
• Kazakh: пайғамбарлық (paiğambarlyq)
• Latin: fāticanus, fātidicus, vāticinius
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: profetisk

  Nynorsk: profetisk

• Plautdietsch: profeetisch
• Polish: proroczy (pl) m
• Russian: проро́ческий (ru) (proróčeskij), ве́щий (ru) (véščij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пророча̀нскӣ

  Roman: proročànskī (sh)

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: profetiski, zwěšćelowarski

• Spanish: profético (es)
• Swedish: profetisk
• Ukrainian: проро́чий (proróčyj)
• Welsh: proffwydol (cy)