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verb (prognosticat, ing)
  1. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
  1. (transitive) To presage, betoken.
The bluebells may an early spring this year.
Translations: 
  • French: présager
    (trans-mid)
  • German: prognostizieren
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: pronosticar
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, betoken)
Etymology: From Old Italian prognosticare, from Latin prognosticum (-con), from Ancient Greek (prognostikon), neutral of (prognostikos) "foreknowing, prescient, prognostic", from prefix - (pro-) + (gnostikos) "of or for knowing, good at knowing", from (gignosko) "to learn to know, to perceive, to mark, to learn".


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