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单词 prodige
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prodigen.

Forms: late Middle English prodyge, late Middle English–1700s prodige.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French prodige.
Etymology: < Middle French prodige (French prodige ) miracle, sign, or extraordinary event, of a magical or supernatural nature (c1355; subsequently also ‘monster, incredibly evil person’ (1553), ‘extraordinary person or thing’ (17th cent.)) < classical Latin prōdigium prodigy n. Compare prodigy n.
Obsolete.
A prodigy; an omen, a portent.Quot. 1482 is an early printed edition of the Brut (see variant reading) which has a composition date of a1470.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]
foretokenc888
tokeningc888
beaconc950
token971
handsela1200
boding1297
wonder1297
bodec1374
signa1387
foreboding1387
prenostica1393
prognosticc1425
prophetc1430
prognostication?a1439
ostentationa1450
prenostication?a1450
prodigy?a1450
augurationc1450
preparative1460
prenosticate?a1475
prenosticative?a1475
prodige1482
prenosticature1490
tokener1513
weird1513
show token1535
luck1538
prognosticate1541
preamble1548
proffer1548
presagition?c1550
foreshower1555
presage1560
portent1562
ostent1570
presagie1581
omen1582
presagement1586
luck sign1587
augury1588
prognosticon1588
forerunner1589
presager1591
halfner1594
spae1596
abode1598
oss1600
assign1601
augur1603
bodement1613
predictiona1616
prognosticala1618
bespeaker1624
portender1635
pre-indicant1659
foreshadow1834
boder1846
prognosticant1880
sky sign1880
1482 W. Caxton in tr. Higden's Prolicionycion viii. xxxi. f. ccccxxvj Sodaynly fyll downe the crowne whiche henge thenne in the myddes of the sayd hows whiche is the fraytour of thabbay of westmynstre, whiche was taken for a prodyge [a1500 Brut (BL Add. 10099) prodige] or token that the regne of kyng harry was ended.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 202/15 Ȝit abone that troubil apperit certane hevinlie prodigis [L. prodigia cælestia] to the daly terroure and mynassing of pepill.
?a1591 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 258 The prodiges appearing in the aire.
?1630 T. Adams Wks. 797 Signes and prodiges [1618 reads prodigies] of a fearefull conflict to come.
1709 T. Sprat Plague of Athens 11 From Heaven in haste she came to see What was the mighty prodige.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

prodigev.

Forms: 1500s prodege.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōdigere.
Etymology: Probably < classical Latin prōdigere to drive forth, to squander < prōd , variant (used before a vowel) of prō- pro- prefix1 + agere to drive (see act v.). Compare Middle French, French prodiguer (1552), Spanish prodigar (1532), Italian prodigare (1598), all in sense ‘to give or spend wastefully or extravagantly, to be lavish with’. Compare prodigalize v., prodigal v., and perhaps also prodigate adj.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To squander.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)]
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scatter1154
dispend1303
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misspendc1390
miswastec1400
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profund1527
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to play away1562
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embezzle1578
dilapidate1590
squander1593
confound1598
to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600
prodigalize1611
profuse1611
squander1611
paddle1616
bezzle1617
to run out of ——1622
to piss away1628
prodigal1628
decoct1629
to bangle (away)1632
debauch1632
deboise1632
to fribble away1633
to fool out1635
to run outa1640
to fiddle away1667
slattera1681
dissipate1682
to play off1693
duck-and-drake1700
liquidate1702
sparkle away1703
waster1821
befool1861
to frivol away1866
to play (at) duck and drake with1872
to fling away1873
mislive1887
slather1904
mucker1928
profligate1938
peter1956
spaff2002
1538 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 10 All religious incombentes here do not onelie leve theire demaynes,..in maner as waste.., but also dothe contynuallie prodege theire moveables unto them belonging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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