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A prodigy is a young person with a natural gift — music, maths, chess, sport — the kind of skill that makes adults stop and look. English almost always keeps the “young” part: we say a child prodigy, a piano prodigy. A grown person with the same gift is more often a genius, or simply brilliant. The word is common in newspapers and proud family stories; it is , but it can also put a heavy light on a child. Though actually, it comes from Latin for an or sign. For a long time a prodigy could be any wonder, even a strange or one. The “talented child” sense is the one you will meet now, but that older “marvel / sign” flavour is why the word still feels a little bigger than “smart kid.”
From the word’s history
From Latin prōdigium 'omen, portent'; later a marvel, then a gifted child.
源自拉丁文 prōdigium「預兆、異象」，後來指驚人的天才。
組成From Latin prōdigium, “omen, portent, prophetic sign,” through Middle English prodige. The old idea was “something that appears as a sign”; later a wonder; later still, a child with astonishing skill.
同家族的字
- prodigiousfrom the same Latin prōdigium; “like a wonder,” then “amazingly great”
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
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prodigynoun/ˈpɹɒdɪd͡ʒi/
- 1
An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
- 2
An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
- He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are told of him.
- 3
A wonderful example of something.
- Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built. The layout has become rather cramped, and prodigies of organisation are performed annually by all concerned to save complete saturation.
- 4
An extremely talented person, especially a child.
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archaicAn extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
- These on the farther bank now stood and gazed, / By Heaven alarm’d, by prodigies amazed: / A signal omen stopp’d the passing host, / Their martial fury in their wonder lost.
- Prodigies and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than Polybius has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called Tragedies than History.
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