prognosis
/pɹɑɡˈnoʊsɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I may say here that it is one of the evidences of original character, that it is apt to baffle all prognosis from a mere observer's standpoint."
- "Despite the positive, constructive aspects of the Beeching Report, the gloomy prognoses on B.R. which issued from so many commentators prior to its publication have left a widespread impression that the railway is an outdated concept."
- "The prognosis was made by taking into consideration the facts that the analog concrete had already achieved its ultimate strength by the period of 1500 days while concrete being predicted was to gain its strength limit by 1.25 time faster, that is by the period of 100 days."
- "If free speech is the lifeblood of democracy then the fate and the prognosis of the latter are that of the former."
- "We are, however, not concerned at all with the questions of whether Esperanto should be adopted as one or even the language of the European Union or the world, or whether it should be a compulsory subject in schools, nor with prognoses about whether the planned language will grow or decline, be ousted by competing planned languages, or any other questions related to phenomena which are not strictly (socio)linguistic in nature."
- "Hovvbeit it is to be noted (vvhich vve hinted in the prognoſis) that the ſvvelling doth often appear critically and profitably, and thereby the ſick are recovered of their diſeaſes; […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek προ- (pro-) Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder. Ancient Greek γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs) Ancient Greek πρόγνωσῐς (prógnōsĭs)bor. Late Latin prognōsislbor. English prognosis Learned borrowing from Late Latin prognōsis (“forecast, prediction; forecast of the course and outcome of a disease”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόγνωσις (prógnōsis, “forecast of the course and outcome of a disease; (Koine) foreknowledge, perceiving beforehand, prediction”), from προ- (pro-, prefix meaning ‘before; beforehand’) + γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs, “inquiry, investigation; knowledge”). The plural prognoses is a learned borrowing from Late Latin prognōsēs. Cognates * Middle French prognosie (“forecast, prediction”) (modern French prognosie (obsolete), prognose (“forecast of the course and outcome of a disease”)) * Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā, “intelligence, wisdom; judgment; knowledge”)
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: πρόγνωσις
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹɑɡˈnoʊsɪs/
- British English: /pɹɒɡˈnəʊsɪs/