prophetess

English

Etymology

From Middle English prophetesse, from Old French prophetesse, from Late Latin prophetissa. By surface analysis, prophet +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɒfɪˈtɛs/

Noun

prophetess (plural prophetesses, masculine prophet)

1. 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

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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