Talk:prodigy
Latest comment: 14 years ago by DCDuring in topic Adjective form
So is child prodigy a synomym? or just redundant? Kappa 03:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Adjective form
[edit]Does "prodigy" have an adjective form? You'd think it would be "prodigal", "prodigious", or "prodigial", but the first two mean other things, and the third word doesn't seem to exist. -Rrius 05:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- For many purposes the noun can be used as an attributive adjective and one can add (deprecated template usage) -like. English gives you options to overcome the occasional gap. The Latin stem for wasteful/extravagant was not too different from the one for wonder/marvel/omen. Prodigious once meant having to do with wonders, marvels, portents, but the modern sense took over the past few hundred years. DCDuring TALK 10:08, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- And there's precocious. DCDuring TALK 10:12, 17 November 2009 (UTC)