prophetic

English

Alternative forms

• prophetical
• prophetick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós), equivalent to prophet +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛtɪk/

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Adjective

prophetic (not comparable)

1. Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

     [Ghost] But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting / Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne. / Ham. O my prophetike soule, my uncle! my uncle!

2. Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
3. Predicted, as by a prophecy.
   • 1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     And fears are oft prophetic of the event.

Derived terms

• prophetic week
• propheticness

Translations

of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet

Asturian: proféticu (ast) Belarusian: праро́чы (praróčy) Bulgarian: пророчески (bg) (proročeski) Catalan: profètic Czech: prorocký Dutch: profetisch (nl) Esperanto: profeta (eo) Finnish: enne-, profetinen (relating to a prophecy), profeetallinen (relating to a prophet) French: prophétique (fr) Galician: profético (gl) German: prophetisch Greek: Ancient: προφητικός (prophētikós), χρηστήριος (khrēstḗrios) Hungarian: profetikus (hu) Irish: fáidhiúil, tairngeartach Italian: profetico (it) Kazakh: пайғамбарлық (paiğambarlyq) Latin: fāticanus, fātidicus, vāticinius Norwegian: Bokmål: profetisk Nynorsk: profetisk Plautdietsch: profeetisch Polish: proroczy (pl) m Russian: проро́ческий (ru) (proróčeskij), ве́щий (ru) (véščij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пророча̀нскӣ Roman: proročànskī (sh) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: profetiski, zwěšćelowarski Spanish: profético (es) Swedish: profetisk Ukrainian: проро́чий (proróčyj) Welsh: proffwydol (cy)