prodige

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Latin aiō

Latin -ium

Latin prōdigiumlbor.

French prodige

Learned borrowing from Latin prōdigium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.diʒ/

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Noun

prodige m (plural prodiges)

1. prodigy, miracle
2. prodigy (an extremely talented person, especially a child)

Derived terms

• enfant prodige
• prodigieux

Further reading

• “prodige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

prōdige

1. second-person singular present active imperative of prōdigō

References

• “prodige”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prodige”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prodige”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.