prophetia
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proˈpʰe.ti.a/, [prɔˈpʰɛt̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈfet.t͡si.a/, [proˈfɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]
Noun[edit]
prophētīa f (genitive prophētīae); first declension
- prophecy, prediction
- Synonyms: praedictiō, praedictum, fātum
- prophets as a group
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prophētīa | prophētīae |
| Genitive | prophētīae | prophētīārum |
| Dative | prophētīae | prophētīīs |
| Accusative | prophētīam | prophētīās |
| Ablative | prophētīā | prophētīīs |
| Vocative | prophētīa | prophētīae |
Descendants[edit]
- Corsican: prufezia, profezia
- Emilian: profezî
- Franco-Provençal: profècie
- Friulian: profezìe
- Istriot: prufaseîa
- Italian: profezia
- Ladin: profezia
- Neapolitan: prufezia
- Old Catalan: profecia
- Catalan: profecia
- Old French: prophetie
- Norman: prophésie (Guernésiais)
- → Middle English: prophecie
- English: prophecy
- Middle French:
- French: prophétie
- Walloon: prophécèie
- Old Leonese:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: profecia
- Old Spanish:
- Piedmontese: professìa
- Romanian: profeție
- Romansch: profezia
- Sardinian: profetzia
References[edit]
- “prophetia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prophetia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- prophetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.