prognosticable

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adjective

Capable of being prognosticated or foretold; predictable.

OriginEnglish prognosticate ← Medieval Latin prognosticare ← Ancient Greek προγνωστῐκός (prognōstĭkós) →
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Meanings

adjectiveprognosticable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCapable of being prognosticated or foretold; predictable.

    it is not reasonable from variable and unstable causes to derive a fixed and constant effect, and such are the causes of this inundation, which cannot indeed be regular, and therefore their effects not prognosticable

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Ancient Greekπρό (pró)
  5. Ancient Greekπρο- (pro-)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃tis
  8. Ancient Greekγνῶσις (gnôsis)
  9. Ancient Greekγνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)
  10. Ancient Greekπρο- (pro-)
  11. Ancient Greekγνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)
  12. Ancient Greekπρόγνωσῐς (prógnōsĭs)
  13. Ancient Greekπρογνωστῐκός (prognōstĭkós)
  14. Medieval Latinprognosticus
  15. Medieval Latinprognosticare
  16. Englishprognosticate
  17. Englishprognosticable

From prognosticate + -able.

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