different between forecast vs forbode

English

Etymology

From Middle English forecasten, forcasten, equivalent to fore- +? cast.The noun is from Middle English forecast, forcast.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??kæst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??k??st/

Verb

forecast (third-person singular simple present forecasts, present participle forecasting, simple past and past participle forecast or forecasted)

1. To estimate how something will be in the future.

   to forecast the weather, or a storm

   to forecast a rise in prices
2. To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
3. (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.

Translations

Noun

forecast (plural forecasts)

1. An estimation of a future condition.
   1. A prediction of the weather.

2. (gambling) exacta

Translations

Derived terms

• (gambling): reverse forecast

Further reading

• forecast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• forecast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• forecast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• fastcore

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabud? (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- +? bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.

Alternative forms

• forbod

Noun

forbode (plural forbodes)

1. (archaic) A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.

   God's/The Lord's forbode

   • 1621, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis, Leviticus, Ch. IIII:

     So Moses himself explaineth it in the words here folowing, and in v. 13. 22. 27.   commandements ]or, charges: meaning prohibitions, or forbodes. For God commandeth both to eschew evil, and to doe good.

   • 1894, Reginald Brimley Johnson, Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, page 142:

     Thus Cloudesle cleft the apple in two,

     That many a man might see;

     "Over God's forbode," said the king,

     "That thou shoot at me!"

   • 2012, The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama, The Towneley Plays: The First Shepherds' Play (translated from Middle English into English), page 153:

     FIRST SHEPHERD. God's forbode thou spare't and thou drink every deal.⁷

     ⁷ God's forbode ... deal   God forbid (literally "God's forbidding") that you refrain from drinking even if you drink it all.

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forb?ad/forbudon, past tense forms of forb?odan (“to forbid”). More at forbid.

Verb

forbode

1. obsolete simple past of forbid.

Etymology 3

Verb

forbode (third-person singular simple present forbodes, present participle forboding, simple past and past participle forboded)

1. Alternative form of forebode

Translations

References

• forbode at OneLook Dictionary Search

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (of past participle) forbydd, forbydt

Adjective

forbode

1. neuter singular of forboden

Verb

forbode

1. past participle of forby
2. past participle of forbyde