Where does “prescience” come from?
Prescience comes from French prescience, from Latin praescientia, a noun form of praescio meaning "to know beforehand," from the prefix prae- combined with a root related to Proto-Indo-European skey- and sek-, both expressing knowing or cutting.
prescience (English): Knowledge of events before they take place;...
Definitions
- Knowledge of events before they take place;...
Ancestry of “prescience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | thanks | — |
| 2 | Old English | þancas | thanks |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | þankōs | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | þankaz | thought; mind; consideration; remembrance;... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | teng- | to think |