different between psychic vs wicca

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (psukhikós, “relative to the soul, spirit, mind”). Earlier referred to as "psychical"; or from Ancient Greek ???? (psukh?, “soul, mind, psyche”). First appeared (as substantive) 1871 and first records 1895.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?k?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k?k

Noun

psychic (plural psychics)

1. A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
2. (parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
3. (Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

Translations

Adjective

psychic (comparative more psychic, superlative most psychic)

1. Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.

2. Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

Translations

Derived terms

• psychic cost
• psychic expenditure
• psychic income

Related terms

• psychical
• psychological

References

Finnish

Noun

wicca

1. Wicca (neo-pagan religion)
2. Wiccan (follower of this religion)

Declension

Synonyms

• (religion): wicca-uskonto, wiccalaisuus
• (follower): wiccalainen

Derived terms

• wiccalainen
• wiccalaisuus

Italian

Noun

wicca f (invariable)

1. Wicca

Related terms

• wiccano

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”).

Further etymology uncertain; apparently from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“separate, divide”), conjectured to be because of early Germanic divinatory practices to do with casting lots (cleromancy).

The exact etymology is problematic. R. Lühr (Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen, Heidelberg (1988), p. 354) connects wigol "prophetic, mantic", w?glian "to practice divination" (Middle Low German wichelen (“bewitch”) and suggests Proto-Germanic *wig?n, via Kluge's law becoming *wikk?n. The basic form would then be the feminine, wicce /?w?t??e/, from *wikkæ, from *wikk?n with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ, from *?n. The palatal -cc- /t??/ in wicca would then be analogous to the feminine.

An alternative possibility is to derive the palatal /t??/ directly from the verb wiccian, from *wikkija (OED, s.v. witch). Lühr conversely favours derivation of this verb from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wit.t???/

Noun

wi??a m (nominative plural wi??an)

1. wizard, sorcerer, magician, druid, necromancer
   • c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue

Declension

Derived terms

• wi??e f

Descendants

• Middle English: wicche; wikke, wikked
  • English: witch; Wicca (borrowing), wicked
  • Scots: wich; wicked, wicket