prediction

See also: prédiction

English

Alternative forms

• prædiction (archaic)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Latin praedictio, praedictionis; equivalent to predict +‎ -ion. Equivalent to Germanic forespeaking, foretale, foretelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈdɪkʃn/

Noun

prediction (plural predictions)

1. A statement of what will happen in the future.

   "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Yogi Berra or Robert Storm Petersen (in translation from Danish)

2. A probability estimation based on statistical methods.

Synonyms

• (statement about the future): forecast, foretale, foretelling, halseny, prognosis, prognostication

Related terms

• predict

Translations

a statement about the future

• Arabic: تَنَبُّؤ m (tanabbuʔ)
• Catalan: predicció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預言／预言 (zh) (yùyán), 预言 (zh) (yùyán), 預估／预估 (zh) (yùgū), 预估 (zh) (yùgū), 預測／预测 (zh) (yùcè), 预测 (zh) (yùcè)

• Czech: předpověď f
• Danish: forudsigelse c
• Dutch: voorspelling (nl) f
• Esperanto: prognozo
• Estonian: ennustus
• Finnish: ennustus (fi), ennuste (fi), prognoosi (fi)
• French: prédiction (fr) f
• Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველება (c̣inasc̣armeṭq̇veleba)
• German: Voraussage (de) f, Vorhersage (de) f, Prophezeiung (de) f
• Hebrew: תחזית f (tahazit)
• Hungarian: jóslat (hu)
• Irish: réamhaisnéis f, tairngreacht f
• Italian: predizione (it)
• Japanese: 予言 (ja) (よげん, yogen), 予測 (ja) (よそく, yosoku)
• Latin: praedictum (la) n, fatum n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: предвидување n (predviduvanje)
• Malay: ramalan
• Norman: prédiction f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spådom m

  Nynorsk: spådom m

• Pashto: مخوېينه f (mëxweyëna)
• Polish: przepowiednia (pl) f, prognoza (pl) f, przewidywanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: predição (pt) f, previsão (pt) f
• Romanian: predicție (ro) f, previziune (ro) f, prevestire (ro) f
• Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прогно́з (ru) m (prognóz)
• Serbo-Croatian: predskazanje (sh)
• Spanish: predicción (es) f
• Swahili: utabiri (sw)
• Swedish: förutsägelse (sv) c, förutsago c (obsolete, in older litt.), spådom c, prognos (sv) c, prediktion (sv) c (scientific)
• Tagalog: hulaysay
• Ukrainian: передбачення (uk) n (peredbačennja)