prediction

See also: prédiction

English

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

prediction (plural predictions)

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)
A probability estimation based on statistical methods.

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

a statement about the future

Arabic: تَنَبُّؤ‎ m (tanabbuʾ)
Catalan: predicció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 預言 (zh), 预言 (zh) (yùyán), 預估 (zh), 预估 (zh) (yùgū), 預測 (zh), 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 n, fatum n
Macedonian: предвидување n (predviduvanje)
Malay: ramalan
Norman: prédiction f
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)