vaticinate

English

Etymology

From Latin vāticinātus, perfect passive participle of vāticinor (“foretell, prophesy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈtɪ.səˌneɪt/

Verb

vaticinate (third-person singular simple present vaticinates, present participle vaticinating, simple past and past participle vaticinated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly formal) To predict or foretell future events; to prophesy or presage.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 27:

     With a slow step, and tears in her eyes, Mrs. Glentworth, vaticinating trouble of some kind, proceeded to cut the string and break the seal of her pacquet.

Derived terms

• vaticination
• vaticinator

Translations

to prophesy or presage

• Bulgarian: предсказвам (bg) (predskazvam), пророкувам (bg) (prorokuvam)
• Italian: vaticinare (it)
• Latin: vāticinor
• Spanish: vaticinar (es)

Anagrams

• inactivate

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

vaticinate

1. inflection of vaticinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

vaticinate f pl

1. feminine plural of vaticinato

Anagrams

• incitavate

Latin

Participle

vāticināte

1. vocative masculine singular of vāticinātus

Spanish

Verb

vaticinate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of vaticinar combined with te