vaticinium ex eventu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
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
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: vāticinium ex ēventū
Inflected Forms
vaticinia ex eventu (plural)