prophete
Middle English
/ˈprɔfɛːt(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- A prophet; one who expounds upon a divine message or a purported one especially used of Christ and the Biblical prophets.
- One of the portions of the Old Testament which covers the prophets.
- (rare) A messenger; one who announces or proclaims something.
- (rare) A foreteller; one who divines or previews.
- (rare) A musical or poetic figure.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English propheta derived from Latin prophēta (prophet) derived from Ancient Greek προφήτης (one who speaks for a god, prophet, spokesman, interpreter, speaker of a god).
Origin
Ancient Greek
προφήτης
Gloss
one who speaks for a god, prophet, spokesman, interpreter, speaker of a god
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- piss-prophet English
- prophet English
- prophetess English
- prophethood English
- prophetism English
- prophetization English
- prophetlike English
- prophetship English
- pseudoprophet English
- profeetta Finnish
- propheta Latin
- prophetalis Latin
- prophetissa Latin
- prophēta Latin
- prophētam Latin
- Prophet German
- profeta Italian
- προφήτης Ancient Greek
- προφητεία Ancient Greek
- φημί Ancient Greek
- ψευδοπροφήτης Ancient Greek
- *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- profeta Portuguese
- propheta Old English
- prophetes Middle English
- prophetesse Middle English
- prophetesse Old French
- profeta Catalan, Valencian
- profeta Galician
- προφήτης Greek (modern)
- ⲡⲣⲟⲫⲏⲧⲏⲥ Coptic
- propheta Old Spanish
- profet Tok Pisin
- prophete xno
- *profuïd Proto-Brythonic
- perofeta Samoan