prescient

Meaning

Adjective

• Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

Origin

• From praesciēns, present participle of) Latin praesciō ("to foreknow"), from prae- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- ("before; in front")) + sciō (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").