prophetia
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proˈpʰe.ti.a/, [prɔˈpʰɛt̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈfet.t͡si.a/, [proˈfɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]
Noun
prophētīa f (genitive prophētīae); first declension
- prophecy, prediction
- Synonyms: praedictiō, praedictum, fātum
- prophets as a group
Declension
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
- 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:
- Asturian: profecía
- Mirandese: profecie, porfecie
- Old Portuguese: profecia
- Galician: profecía
- Portuguese: profecia
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: profesia
- Old Spanish:
- Ladino: profesia
- Spanish: profecía
- Piedmontese: professìa
- Romanian: profeție
- Romansch: profezia
- Sardinian: profetzia
References
- “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