prodigyn.

Brit.

/ˈprɒdᵻdʒi/, U.S.

/ˈprɑdədʒi/

Forms: 1500s perdigie (probably transmission error), 1500s prodegie, 1500s prodygy, 1500s–1700s prodigie, 1500s– prodigy, 1600s prodegy; Scottish pre-1700 prodegi, pre-1700 prodige, pre-1700 prodigie, 1700s– prodigy.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōdigium.

Etymology: < classical Latin prōdigium extraordinary thing or occurrence regarded as an omen, monstrous event or situation, monstrous person, freak, wonder, marvel, of disputed origin (see below). Compare Spanish prodigio (14th cent.), Portuguese prodígio (15th cent.), Italian prodigio (a1342). Compare prodige n. and its French etymon, and also prodigious adj.Classical Latin prōdigium may derive < prōdigere prodige v., though there is no clear connection of sense. A derivation from classical Latin āiō ‘I say yes’ has also been suggested, but this is untenable on both semantic and morphological grounds.

1. An extraordinary thing or occurrence regarded as an omen; a sign, a portent. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]

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?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 64 Þe prodigies and þe wondirfull signes þat fille aforne his deþe.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxv. f. cxlvi^v Many wonderfull prodygyes & tokyns were shewed in Englonde, as y^e swellyng or rysyng of the water of Thamys.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxv (margin) A prodigie [printed perdigie] of the Sunne.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 448 This slaughter was foretold by many prodigies.

a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 478 The Insolency of injust Men is a Prodigy of their Ruin.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. xii. 553 The province of interpreting prodigies, and inspecting the entrails, belonged to the Haruspices.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 24 June 89 Omens and prodigies have lost their terrors.

1800 J. Joyce Astron. in Sci. Dialogues II. xxiv Were not comets formerly dreaded, as awful prodigies intended to alarm the world?

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan 135 It grew dark, while he was praying; an evil omen; though it was in the summer;—yea, thundered and lightened, while he was upon his knees; another prodigy, of the time, which has not been forgotten.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 73 The air was full of prodigies. There were terrible storms; the plague wrought fearful ravages.

1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 318 The prodigy of Hippokrates' pots overboiling firelessly at Olympia earns immediate disapprobative notice.

2. An unusual or extraordinary thing or occurrence; an anomaly; something abnormal or unnatural; spec. a monster, a freak.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > instance or example of

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > a marvel, object of wonder > regarded as unnatural

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1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 sig. B1^v Where is that valiant Crookbackt prodegie?

a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 178 He's a villain, As monstrous as a prodigy, and as dreadful.

1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 52 What is a prodigie, but some thing that comes to passe besides, beyond, above, or against the cours of nature?

1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. i. viii. 82 Quick-Silver is a prodigy among Metals.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 189 A climate, where rain is considered as a prodigy, and is not seen in many years.

1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 55 Herodotus saw the act [of bestiality] openly performed..and calls it a prodigy... But the Egyptians had no such horror of it.

1854 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxxi, in Monthly Packet Nov. 337 Did not our innate generosity restrain us, I would confound him, and make him a prodigy to all the world!

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Jan. 3/1 A genuine bilinguist is as rare a prodigy as a two-headed calf.

1915 G. C. Druce in Archaeol. Jrnl. 286 141 Below the giant is the sciapod, a very interesting prodigy.

1966 PMLA 81 387/2 We, and all Mr. B's friends and relations, realize that Pamela is a freak. She is a prodigy.

2004 Spectator (Nexis) 13 Mar. 24 Whereas they [sc. hermaphrodites] were once looked on as terrifying portents..they were now treated rather as pets or entertainments (the Romans derived considerable pleasure from laughing at prodigies of nature).

a. An amazing or surprising thing; a wonder, a marvel. In quot. 1616 used as an interjection: cf. prodigious adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > a marvel, object of wonder

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1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i, in Wks. I. 533 Trv...The poore madame,..snatch'd at her perruke, to couer her baldnesse: and put it on, the wrong way. Cle. O prodigie !

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 341 It is a most incredible prodigy..that he should so rashly reject what he had so devotionally received.

1722 J. Macky Journey through Eng. II. 30 It's a Prodigy, how so wise a People as the English can be gulled by such Pick-Pockets.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xvii. 138 'Tis no prodigy to see a man whose real moral character stands very low, who yet entertains the highest notion of himself, in the light of a religious man.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist v. i. 303 The hand and breath of one Ecclesiastic is made to convey to another the power to perform invisible and undemonstrable prodigies.

1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith (1884) App. i. iii. §8 (note) The perversion of this word ‘phenomenon’ into the sense of ‘prodigy’. Even educated people may be found speaking of a remarkable occurrence as ‘Quite a phenomenon’.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 71 By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.

1988 N. Christopher Desperate Characters ii. 82 Neighbors brought you their ailing plants, and after a week on your terrace the puniest amaryllis turned prodigy.

b. A wonderful or outstanding example of a specified attribute, achievement, etc.

ΚΠ

1647 Moderate Intelligencer No. 121. 1157 It was adjudged that this prodigy of learning proceeded from nothing else but a most forward maturity of wit, and a most rare and admirable memory, assisted by excellent instruction.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 52 That Prodigy of Learning, the noble & illustrious Joseph Scaliger.

1690 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue i. 14 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. He [sc. Alexander] was a Prodigy of Valour.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 277 This bird, he asserts,..is a prodigy of understanding.

1844 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (1867) III. 193/2 Pericles..performed prodigies of valour.

1874 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains 208 If Christianity is a prodigy of sanctity, Hellenism is a prodigy of beauty.

1936 J. Agate Diary 2 Oct. in Selective Ego (1976) 48 The tight-rope walker preserving his balance by prodigies of skill and poise and knowing that the rope may snap at any moment.

1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 27 Jan. (2003) 225 I sat on with Brockington, whose mind is an inexhaustible ragbag of reminiscences, quotations, stories, verses, jokes—a prodigy of a memory.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 29 Aug. 7/2 His book is certainly a prodigy of information gathering, and he excavates a hundred diverting details.

c. A person with exceptional qualities or abilities esp. a precociously talented child. Frequently with appositive modifying word, as child prodigy, infant prodigy, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun] > person of superior intellect, genius

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person

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the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > ability or talent > people having talent > person having talent > very gifted person

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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun] > person of superior intellect, genius > child

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a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 206 The prettiest, and dearest Child, that ever parents had, being but 5 yeares & 3 days old..but even at that tender age, a prodigie for Witt, & understanding.

1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 32 Aye, but her beauty will affect you—she is, tho' I say it, who am her father, a very prodigy.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 204 The juvenile prodigy, the poetical youth, the great genius.

1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 51 This infant prodigy had excited so much attention that his likeness was taken, and engraved by Sherwin.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 453 Whose almost incredible achievements entitle them to be termed the prodigies of the human race.

1953 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe ii. 22 The male part of the college included an unusual number of child prodigies,..as well as some spastics and paraplegics.

1991 Independent 5 Jan. 29/2 Joachim had been acclaimed as a violin prodigy from the start. His London debut at 12..seems to have had an impact comparable to the young Menuhin's appearance.

Compounds

General attributive and appositive (in sense 3c), as prodigy pianist, prodigy violinist, etc.

ΚΠ

1889 Daily News 29 Jan. 6/6 The ‘prodigy’ season..began yesterday, when Master O—— H—— made his rentrée in London.

1892 Lincoln Evening News 7 Mar. 2/2 A new seven-year-old ‘prodigy’ pianist has appeared in Vienna with extraordinary success.

1932 Times 7 Nov. 12/2 The American prodigy violinist, Ricci, will play the Mendelssohn concerto.

2003 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 May (Features section) 17 There are no prodigy writers. Mozart may have written his first symphony at the age of four, but you can't do that with writing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	prodigy
释义	prodigyn. Brit. /ˈprɒdᵻdʒi/, U.S. /ˈprɑdədʒi/ Forms: 1500s perdigie (probably transmission error), 1500s prodegie, 1500s prodygy, 1500s–1700s prodigie, 1500s– prodigy, 1600s prodegy; Scottish pre-1700 prodegi, pre-1700 prodige, pre-1700 prodigie, 1700s– prodigy. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōdigium. Etymology: < classical Latin prōdigium extraordinary thing or occurrence regarded as an omen, monstrous event or situation, monstrous person, freak, wonder, marvel, of disputed origin (see below). Compare Spanish prodigio (14th cent.), Portuguese prodígio (15th cent.), Italian prodigio (a1342). Compare prodige n. and its French etymon, and also prodigious adj.Classical Latin prōdigium may derive < prōdigere prodige v., though there is no clear connection of sense. A derivation from classical Latin āiō ‘I say yes’ has also been suggested, but this is untenable on both semantic and morphological grounds. 1. An extraordinary thing or occurrence regarded as an omen; a sign, a portent. Now rare. 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Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 64 Þe prodigies and þe wondirfull signes þat fille aforne his deþe. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxv. f. cxlvi^v Many wonderfull prodygyes & tokyns were shewed in Englonde, as y^e swellyng or rysyng of the water of Thamys. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxv (margin) A prodigie [printed perdigie] of the Sunne. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 448 This slaughter was foretold by many prodigies. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 478 The Insolency of injust Men is a Prodigy of their Ruin. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. xii. 553 The province of interpreting prodigies, and inspecting the entrails, belonged to the Haruspices. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 24 June 89 Omens and prodigies have lost their terrors. 1800 J. Joyce Astron. in Sci. Dialogues II. xxiv Were not comets formerly dreaded, as awful prodigies intended to alarm the world? 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan 135 It grew dark, while he was praying; an evil omen; though it was in the summer;—yea, thundered and lightened, while he was upon his knees; another prodigy, of the time, which has not been forgotten. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 73 The air was full of prodigies. There were terrible storms; the plague wrought fearful ravages. 1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 318 The prodigy of Hippokrates' pots overboiling firelessly at Olympia earns immediate disapprobative notice. 2. An unusual or extraordinary thing or occurrence; an anomaly; something abnormal or unnatural; spec. a monster, a freak. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > instance or example of miraclea1393 stupora1398 prodigy1595 wonderment1606 wonder1721 marvela1785 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > extreme wickedness > person monster?a1505 prodigy1595 scelerate1715 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > a marvel, object of wonder > regarded as unnatural wonder1297 monsterc1384 prodigy1595 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > condition of being abnormal or unnatural > that which is monsterc1384 prodigy1595 aberration1615 unnatural1627 preternatural1674 nonsuch?1706 frisk of nature1809 freak of nature1847 preternaturalism1858 hodmandod1881 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 sig. B1^v Where is that valiant Crookbackt prodegie? a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 178 He's a villain, As monstrous as a prodigy, and as dreadful. 1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 52 What is a prodigie, but some thing that comes to passe besides, beyond, above, or against the cours of nature? 1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. i. viii. 82 Quick-Silver is a prodigy among Metals. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 189 A climate, where rain is considered as a prodigy, and is not seen in many years. 1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 55 Herodotus saw the act [of bestiality] openly performed..and calls it a prodigy... But the Egyptians had no such horror of it. 1854 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxxi, in Monthly Packet Nov. 337 Did not our innate generosity restrain us, I would confound him, and make him a prodigy to all the world! 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Jan. 3/1 A genuine bilinguist is as rare a prodigy as a two-headed calf. 1915 G. C. Druce in Archaeol. Jrnl. 286 141 Below the giant is the sciapod, a very interesting prodigy. 1966 PMLA 81 387/2 We, and all Mr. B's friends and relations, realize that Pamela is a freak. She is a prodigy. 2004 Spectator (Nexis) 13 Mar. 24 Whereas they [sc. hermaphrodites] were once looked on as terrifying portents..they were now treated rather as pets or entertainments (the Romans derived considerable pleasure from laughing at prodigies of nature). 3. a. An amazing or surprising thing; a wonder, a marvel. In quot. 1616 used as an interjection: cf. prodigious adj. 2b. 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View more context for this quotation 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 341 It is a most incredible prodigy..that he should so rashly reject what he had so devotionally received. 1722 J. Macky Journey through Eng. II. 30 It's a Prodigy, how so wise a People as the English can be gulled by such Pick-Pockets. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xvii. 138 'Tis no prodigy to see a man whose real moral character stands very low, who yet entertains the highest notion of himself, in the light of a religious man. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist v. i. 303 The hand and breath of one Ecclesiastic is made to convey to another the power to perform invisible and undemonstrable prodigies. 1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith (1884) App. i. iii. §8 (note) The perversion of this word ‘phenomenon’ into the sense of ‘prodigy’. Even educated people may be found speaking of a remarkable occurrence as ‘Quite a phenomenon’. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 71 By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy. 1988 N. Christopher Desperate Characters ii. 82 Neighbors brought you their ailing plants, and after a week on your terrace the puniest amaryllis turned prodigy. b. A wonderful or outstanding example of a specified attribute, achievement, etc. ΚΠ 1647 Moderate Intelligencer No. 121. 1157 It was adjudged that this prodigy of learning proceeded from nothing else but a most forward maturity of wit, and a most rare and admirable memory, assisted by excellent instruction. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 52 That Prodigy of Learning, the noble & illustrious Joseph Scaliger. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue i. 14 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. He [sc. Alexander] was a Prodigy of Valour. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 277 This bird, he asserts,..is a prodigy of understanding. 1844 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (1867) III. 193/2 Pericles..performed prodigies of valour. 1874 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains 208 If Christianity is a prodigy of sanctity, Hellenism is a prodigy of beauty. 1936 J. Agate Diary 2 Oct. in Selective Ego (1976) 48 The tight-rope walker preserving his balance by prodigies of skill and poise and knowing that the rope may snap at any moment. 1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 27 Jan. (2003) 225 I sat on with Brockington, whose mind is an inexhaustible ragbag of reminiscences, quotations, stories, verses, jokes—a prodigy of a memory. 1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 29 Aug. 7/2 His book is certainly a prodigy of information gathering, and he excavates a hundred diverting details. c. A person with exceptional qualities or abilities esp. a precociously talented child. Frequently with appositive modifying word, as child prodigy, infant prodigy, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun] > person of superior intellect, genius wit1508 angel1655 eagle wit1661 genie1676 prodigya1684 genio1684 mastermind1692 genius1711 athlete1759 the brain(s)1844 master-brain1857 gaon1892 supermind1903 poindexter1981 dexter1985 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person miracle1595 masterpiece1648 wonderling1658 prodigya1684 phenomenon1839 caution1870 astonisher1871 mazer1876 phenom1881 knock-out1892 superman1925 Wunderkind1930 whiz-kid1960 the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > ability or talent > people having talent > person having talent > very gifted person prodigya1684 boy wonder1857 idiot savant1870 phenom1881 Wunderkind1891 superboy1907 Supergirl1912 savant1919 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun] > person of superior intellect, genius > child prodigya1684 child prodigy1860 sharpshins1883 quiz kid1940 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 206 The prettiest, and dearest Child, that ever parents had, being but 5 yeares & 3 days old..but even at that tender age, a prodigie for Witt, & understanding. 1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 32 Aye, but her beauty will affect you—she is, tho' I say it, who am her father, a very prodigy. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 204 The juvenile prodigy, the poetical youth, the great genius. 1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 51 This infant prodigy had excited so much attention that his likeness was taken, and engraved by Sherwin. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 453 Whose almost incredible achievements entitle them to be termed the prodigies of the human race. 1953 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe ii. 22 The male part of the college included an unusual number of child prodigies,..as well as some spastics and paraplegics. 1991 Independent 5 Jan. 29/2 Joachim had been acclaimed as a violin prodigy from the start. His London debut at 12..seems to have had an impact comparable to the young Menuhin's appearance. Compounds General attributive and appositive (in sense 3c), as prodigy pianist, prodigy violinist, etc. ΚΠ 1889 Daily News 29 Jan. 6/6 The ‘prodigy’ season..began yesterday, when Master O—— H—— made his rentrée in London. 1892 Lincoln Evening News 7 Mar. 2/2 A new seven-year-old ‘prodigy’ pianist has appeared in Vienna with extraordinary success. 1932 Times 7 Nov. 12/2 The American prodigy violinist, Ricci, will play the Mendelssohn concerto. 2003 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 May (Features section) 17 There are no prodigy writers. Mozart may have written his first symphony at the age of four, but you can't do that with writing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?a1450
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