προγνωστικός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Analyzable as both προ- (pro-) + γνωστικός (gnōstikós) and πρόγνωσις (prógnōsis) + -τικός (-tikós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pro.ɡnɔːs.ti.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pro.ɡnos.tiˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pro.ɣnos.tiˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pro.ɣnos.tiˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pro.ɣnos.tiˈkos/
Adjective
προγνωστῐκός • (prognōstĭkós) m (feminine προγνωστῐκή, neuter προγνωστῐκόν); first/second declension
- foreknowing, prescient
- (nominalized, neuter) a sign of the future, prognostic
- (nominalized, feminine) name of an antidote mentioned by Galen
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | προγνωστῐκός prognōstĭkós |
προγνωστῐκή prognōstĭkḗ |
προγνωστῐκόν prognōstĭkón |
προγνωστῐκώ prognōstĭkṓ |
προγνωστῐκᾱ́ prognōstĭkā́ |
προγνωστῐκώ prognōstĭkṓ |
προγνωστῐκοί prognōstĭkoí |
προγνωστῐκαί prognōstĭkaí |
προγνωστῐκᾰ́ prognōstĭkắ | |||||
| Genitive | προγνωστῐκοῦ prognōstĭkoû |
προγνωστῐκῆς prognōstĭkês |
προγνωστῐκοῦ prognōstĭkoû |
προγνωστῐκοῖν prognōstĭkoîn |
προγνωστῐκαῖν prognōstĭkaîn |
προγνωστῐκοῖν prognōstĭkoîn |
προγνωστῐκῶν prognōstĭkôn |
προγνωστῐκῶν prognōstĭkôn |
προγνωστῐκῶν prognōstĭkôn | |||||
| Dative | προγνωστῐκῷ prognōstĭkōî |
προγνωστῐκῇ prognōstĭkēî |
προγνωστῐκῷ prognōstĭkōî |
προγνωστῐκοῖν prognōstĭkoîn |
προγνωστῐκαῖν prognōstĭkaîn |
προγνωστῐκοῖν prognōstĭkoîn |
προγνωστῐκοῖς prognōstĭkoîs |
προγνωστῐκαῖς prognōstĭkaîs |
προγνωστῐκοῖς prognōstĭkoîs | |||||
| Accusative | προγνωστῐκόν prognōstĭkón |
προγνωστῐκήν prognōstĭkḗn |
προγνωστῐκόν prognōstĭkón |
προγνωστῐκώ prognōstĭkṓ |
προγνωστῐκᾱ́ prognōstĭkā́ |
προγνωστῐκώ prognōstĭkṓ |
προγνωστῐκούς prognōstĭkoús |
προγνωστῐκᾱ́ς prognōstĭkā́s |
προγνωστῐκᾰ́ prognōstĭkắ | |||||
| Vocative | προγνωστῐκέ prognōstĭké |
προγνωστῐκή prognōstĭkḗ |
προγνωστῐκόν prognōstĭkón |
προγνωστῐκώ prognōstĭkṓ |
προγνωστῐκᾱ́ prognōstĭkā́ |
προγνωστῐκώ prognōstĭkṓ |
προγνωστῐκοί prognōstĭkoí |
προγνωστῐκαί prognōstĭkaí |
προγνωστῐκᾰ́ prognōstĭkắ | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| προγνωστῐκῶς prognōstĭkôs |
προγνωστῐκώτερος prognōstĭkṓteros |
προγνωστῐκώτᾰτος prognōstĭkṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Medieval Latin: prognōsticus
- → English: prognostic
- → Middle French: prognostic (learned)
- French: pronostic
- → Italian: prognostico (learned)
- → Portuguese: prognóstico, pronóstico (learned)
- → Romanian: prognostic, pronostic (learned)
- → Spanish: pronóstico
Further reading
- προγνωστικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- προγνωστικός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “προγνωστικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press