prescient

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɛsiənt/|/ˈpɹiːʃiənt/    美 /ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/|/ˈpɹiːʃ(i)ənt/|/ˈpɹɛsiənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
    — And if the præſcient Muſes guide my Lay, / Or, future Secrets, Phœbus can diſplay, / The Day ſhall ſhine diſtinguiſh'd from the reſt, / That Anna dignify'd, and Hymen bleſt; […]

词形变化

more prescient comparative most prescient superlative præscient alternative,obsolete praescient alternative,obsolete

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). By surface analysis, pre- (“earlier in time, beforehand”) + scient (“knowing, aware”).
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