different between prognostic vs foretoken

English

Alternative forms

• prognostick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin prognosticus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (progn?stikós, “foreknowing”), from ???- (pró-) + ????????? (gn?stikós, “of or for knowing, good at knowing”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “to learn to know, to perceive, to mark, to learn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????n?st?k/, /p????n?st?k/

Adjective

prognostic (comparative more prognostic, superlative most prognostic)

1. Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.

Synonyms

• foretelling
• predictive

Translations

Noun

prognostic (plural prognostics)

1. (rare, medicine) prognosis
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I:

     There are several opinions as to what he meant
     But no one considers it a happy prognostic.

   • 1809, Bartholomew Parr, "PROGNOSIS" in The London Medical Dictionary

     The appearance of the tongue is closely connected with the sense of thirst, and is of considerable importance as a prognostic.

2. A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
   • 1710, Jonathan Swift, "A Description of a City Shower"

     Careful observers may foretell the hour
     (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
     While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
     Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

3. A prediction of the future.
4. One who predicts the future.

Synonyms

• (sign): indication, sign, omen, foretelling, prediction

Related terms

• prognostatic
• prognosis
• prognosticable
• prognosticate

Anagrams

• topscoring

Middle French

Noun

prognostic m (plural prognostics)

1. prognostic (prediction about the future)

Descendants

• French: pronostic

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English foretokne, fortacne, from Old English foret?cn, foret?cen (“foretoken, presage, prognostic, prodigy, sign, wonder”), equivalent to fore- +? token. Cognate with Dutch voorteken, German Low German Vörteken, German Vorzeichen.

Noun

foretoken (plural foretokens)

1. A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *foretoknen, fortaknen, from Old English foret?cnian (“to foreshow”).

Verb

foretoken (third-person singular simple present foretokens, present participle foretokening, simple past and past participle foretokened)

1. (transitive) To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.

Derived terms

• foretokening