Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vaticinium ex eventu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vaticini-um ex even-tu
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fictional prophecy that has been written after the supposedly predicted event but is presented as a genuine prediction before the event; a postdiction.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāticinium ex ēventū.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: vāticinium ex ēventū

Inflected Forms

vaticinia ex eventu (plural)

Questions

What does vaticinium ex eventu mean?
A fictional prophecy that has been written after the supposedly predicted event but is presented as a genuine prediction before the event; a postdiction.
Where does vaticinium ex eventu come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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