different between prodigy vs iluy

English

Etymology

From Middle English prodige (“portent”), from Latin pr?digium (“omen, portent, prophetic sign”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??d?d?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??d?d?i/
• Hyphenation: prod?i?gy

Noun

prodigy (plural prodigies)

1. (now rare) An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent. [from 15th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 87:

     John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
2. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak. [from 16th c.]
3. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder. [from 17th c.]
4. A wonderful example of something. [from 17th c.]
5. An extremely talented person, especially a child. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (extremely talented person): wunderkind, girl wonder, girl-genius, boy-genius, boy wonder, child prodigy.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• precocious
• prodigal
• child prodigy
• prodigy house

Further reading

• prodigy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prodigy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• prodigy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Noun

iluy

1. Alternative spelling of illui

Quotations

• 2000, Peter Ochs, “Wounded Word, Wounded Interpreter,” in Humanity at the Limit, Michael A Signer ed. [1]

  He was an iluy, a natural genius in textual study.

• 2003, Jeremy I Pfeffer, Malbim’s Job [2]

  His first stop was Warsaw, where he was acclaimed as the Iluy (prodigy) from Volhynia.

• 2004, Shalom Goldman, God's Sacred Tongue [3]

  In his five years at Pressburg, the young iluy mastered the text of the Babylonian Talmud.

Anagrams

• Yuli, Yü-li