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A prophetess is a woman who people believe has been sent by God to lead them — a female prophet. In the Bible and in religious history you meet named prophetesses: women who speak for God, warn a people, or guide them. The core is that calling, not a night-market guess about next week. The word is old and rather formal. Though actually, older English liked a special -ess form for the woman (as with actress), and prophetess still lives in religious writing and in older translations. Many speakers today just say prophet for a woman as well, especially in ordinary news, and that is now the more usual choice. It is not a general word for any woman who claims to see the future; if you use it that way as a joke, the religious colour is still sitting in the word.
女先知（指受神差遣、為神發言的女性；不是夜市算命，也不是女巫）
組成From Latin prophētissa (prophēta “prophet” + -issa, the feminine ending), via Old French prophetesse and Middle English prophetesse. The Greek behind prophet is πρό (pró, “forth / before”) + φημί (phēmí, “I speak”): one who speaks forth, or speaks for a god.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prophetessnoun/pɹɒfɪˈtɛs/
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A female prophet.
- What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。