prophetic

English

Alternative forms

• prophetical
• prophetick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛtɪk/

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Adjective

prophetic (not comparable)

1. of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet
2. 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.

Translations

of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet

• Asturian: proféticu
• 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
• Irish: fáidhiúil, tairngeartach
• Italian: profetico (it)
• Kazakh: пайғамбарлық (paiğambarlyq)
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• Latin: fāticanus, fātidicus, vāticinius
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: profetisk

  Nynorsk: profetisk

• Plautdietsch: profeetisch
• 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)

Derived terms

• propheticness