"if he could really vaticinate the course of the stock market, he'd be rich enough to own Manhattan"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1623, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101tus , past participle of v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy, warn,\" verbal derivative of *v\u0101ticinium \"act of prophesying,\" from v\u0101t\u0113s \"prophet, seer\" + canere \"to sing, chant, utter\" + -ium , deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vatic , chant entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"va-",
"v\u0259-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"augur",
"call",
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prognosticate",
"prophesy",
"read"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095759",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"vaticination":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": prediction":[],
": the act of prophesying":[]
},
"examples":[
"the myopic prewar vaticinations that the conflict would be brief and relatively painless"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014dn-, v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014d , from v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy\" + -ti\u014dn-, ti\u014d deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vaticinate":""
"Stone\u2019s fiction abounds with Delphic oracles and vatic pronouncements like this. \u2014 Scott Bradfield, The New Republic , 20 May 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin v\u0101t\u0113s, v\u0101tis \"prophet, seer\" (akin to Gaulish\u2014Greek spelling\u2014 ou\u0101\u0301 teis \"those performing sacred rites,\" Old Irish f\u00e1ith \"seer, prophet,\" f\u00e1th \"prophecy, prophetic wisdom,\" Welsh gwawd \"song of praise, satire\"; Gothic wods \"possessed,\" Old English w\u014dd \"raging, senseless,\" Old Norse \u00f3\u00f0r \"frantic, furious,\" all going back to Germanic *w\u014dd- ; Old High German wuot \"rage, frenzy,\" going back to Germanic *w\u014ddi- ; Old English w\u014dth \"sound, noise, voice, song,\" Old Norse \u00f3\u00f0r \"mind, sense, song, poetry,\" both going back to Germanic *w\u014d\u00fea- ) + -ic entry 1":""