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noun, plural -gies.
1.
a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability: a musical prodigy.
2.
a marvelous example (usually followed by of).
3.
something wonderful or marvelous; a wonder.
4.
something abnormal or monstrous.
5.
Archaic. something extraordinary regarded as of prophetic significance.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English prodige < Latin prōdigium prophetic sign
1425–75; late Middle English prodige < Latin prōdigium prophetic sign
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
prodigy
1494, "sign, portent, something extraordinary from which omens are drawn," from L. prodigium "sign, omen, portent, prodigy," from pro- "forth" + -igium, a suffix or word of unknown origin, perhaps from *agi-, root of aio "I say" (see adage). Meaning "child with exceptional
EXPANDabilities" first recorded 1658.
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