soothsayer

English

Alternative forms

• southsayer

Etymology

From Middle English sothsaier, zothziggere, equivalent to sooth +‎ sayer.

Noun

soothsayer (plural soothsayers)

1. (obsolete) One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
2. One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
3. A mantis or rearhorse.

Related terms

• soothsay

Translations

one who predicts the future

• Arabic: عراف (ar)
• Armenian: գուշակ (hy) (gušak)
• Dutch: waarzegger (nl) m, waarzegster (nl) f
• Finnish: ennustaja (fi)
• French: prophète (fr) m, prophétesse (fr) f, devin (fr) m
• German: Seher (de) m
• Greek: μάντις (el) (mántis)
• Icelandic: (male) spámaður (is), (female) spákona (is)

• Italian: indovino (it) m, indovina (it) f
• Portuguese: adivinho (pt) m, adivinha (pt) f
• Russian: пророк (ru) (prorók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гатар (sh) m, гатара (sh) f

  Roman: gatar (sh) m, gatara (sh) f

• Spanish: adivino (es) m
• Swedish: (male) siare (sv) c, (female) sierska (sv) c
• Turkish: falcı (tr), (kâhin) kahin (tr)

See also

• prognosticator
• seer
• prophet