different between prophetic vs fatidic

English

Alternative forms

• prophetical
• prophetick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin proph?ticus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (proph?tikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???f?t?k/

Adjective

prophetic (not comparable)

1. of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet
2. predicted, as by a prophecy

Translations

Derived terms

• propheticness

English

Etymology

From Latin f?tidicus, from f?tum (“fate”) + dico (“I speak”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fe??t?d?k/

Adjective

fatidic (comparative more fatidic, superlative most fatidic)

1. (now rare) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 112:

     At that moment he felt quite proud of his stratagem. He was to recall it with a fatidic shiver seventeen years later [...].

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French fatidique, from Latin fatidicus.

Adjective

fatidic m or n (feminine singular fatidic?, masculine plural fatidici, feminine and neuter plural fatidice)

1. fateful

Declension