prophesy

prophesy
v. trans.
Predict: Ar. and P. προᾰγορεύειν, προειπεῖν, P. and V. προλέγειν, V. προσημαίνειν, προφαίνειν, προφωνεῖν.
Prophesy by oracles: P. and V. μαντεύεσθαι, P. ἀπομαντεύεσθαι, Ar. and P. χρησμῳδεῖν, V. προμαντεύεσθαι, (Eur. Frag.), θεσπίζειν, προθεσπίζειν, φημίζειν, Ar. and V. θεσπιῳδεῖν.
It was prophesied to me: V. ἐμοὶ . . . ἦν πρόφαντον (Soph. Tr. 1158).
Prophesying truly, adj.: V. ἀ̆ληθόμαντις.
Prophesying falsely: V. ψευδόμαντις.

PROPHESY

Transitively vaticinari (general term): canere (to prophesy in verse or rhythm): augurari (to foretell by the flight of birds etc.; then generally). To prophesy (= anticipate) anything aliquid augurari; aliquid opinione or conjectura (Cic.) or mente (Curt.) augurari: to prophesy anybody’s fate praedicere quid alicui eventurum sit; his death alicui mortem augurari.

Intransitively futura praedicere: praenunciare: vaticinari (to prophesy; be a vates).

prophesy:

1. vātĭcĭnor, 1: to p. in a state of phrensy, v. per furorem, Cic. Div. 1, 18, init.: Liv.: Ov.

2. căno, cĕcĭni, cantum, 3 (prophecies being usually in verse: esp. poet.): he p.'d, as (if he had been) a seer, cecinit ut vates, Nep. Att. 16, extr. (used there to avoid repetition of praedico): Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 18 (in a rhetorical passage; said of the gods, ut haec quae nunc fiunt canere Dii viderentur): Liv. 1, 45, ad fin.: Virg.: Tib.

3. praedīco, 3 (to foretell): v. TO PREDICT.

4. augŭror, 1: v. TO PREDICT (3).

5. in Scriptural sense, prŏphētīzo, 1: Vulg. Matt. xxvi. 68; also, prŏphēto, 1: ib. 1 Cor. xiv. 1; et pass.

μαντεύομαι
to divine, prophesy, presage

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θεοπροπέω
to prophesy
θεσπίζω
to declare by oracle, prophesy, divine
θεσπιῳδέω
to prophesy, sing in prophetic strain
θεσφατίζω
prophesy
μαντιπολέω
to prophesy
προμαντεύομαι
to prophesy
πυθιάζω
to be inspired by Apollo, prophesy
φοιβάζω
to prophesy
χρηστηριάζω
to give oracles, prophesy
ἐπιθεσπίζω
to prophesy
ἐπιμαντεύομαι
prophesy

cano
to sing, to prophesy
divino
to foresee, divine, foretell, predict, prophesy, expect, dread, conjecture
vaticinor
to foretell, predict, prophesy, forebode

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hariolor
to foretell, prophesy, divine
ominor
to forbode, prognosticate, augur, interpret, presage, predict, prophesy