prodigium

From prō- (“fore-”) +‎ aiō (“say”); compare and contrast with adagiō, later adagium, more likely of different formation.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈdi.ɡi.um/, [proːˈdɪ.ɡi.ũː]

prōdigium n (genitive prōdigiī or prōdigī); second declension

1. omen, portent, prophetic sign
2. prodigy, wonder

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• French: prodige
• Italian: prodigio
• Portuguese: prodígio
• Spanish: prodigio

• prodigium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prodigium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prodigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to avert by expiatory sacrifices the effect of ominous portents: prodigia procurare (Liv. 22. 1)
    
• prodigium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prodigium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195083458