prophetess

English

From Middle English prophetesse, from Old French prophetesse, from Late Latin prophetissa. Surface etymology is prophet +‎ -ess.

prophetess (plural prophetesses, masculine prophet)

A female prophet.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 138:
  What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy.

female prophet

Armenian: մարգարեուհի (hy) (margareuhi)
Belarusian: праро́чыца f (praróčyca)
Bulgarian: проро́чица f (proróčica)
Czech: věštkyně (cs) f, prorokyně f
Danish: profetinde c
Esperanto: profetino
Finnish: naisprofeetta; profeetta (fi) (gender neutral)
French: prophétesse (fr) f
Galician: profetisa (gl) f
German: Prophetin (de) f
Gothic: 𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 f (praufēteis)
Greek:
Ancient: προφῆτις f (prophêtis)
Hungarian: prófétanő (hu)
Irish: banfháidh m, fáidhbhean f
Italian: profetessa (it) f
Japanese: 女預言者 (おんなよげんしゃ, onna yogensha)
Latin: prophētissa f, prophētis f, vāticinātrīx f
Macedonian: проро́чица f (proróčica)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: profetinne f
Nynorsk: profetinne m
Polish: prorokini (pl) f
Portuguese: profetisa (pt) f
Romanian: profetă f
Russian: проро́чица (ru) f (proróčica), предсказа́тельница (ru) f (predskazátelʹnica)
Scottish Gaelic: ban-fhàidh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пророчица f
Roman: pròročica (sh) f
Slovak: prorokyňa f
Slovene: prerokinja f
Spanish: profetisa (es) f
Swedish: profetissa (sv) c, sierska (sv) c
Ukrainian: проро́чиця (uk) f (proróčycja)
Volapük: jiprofetan
Welsh: proffwydes f
Yiddish: נבֿיאה‎ f (neviye)