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noun an authoritative person who divines the future
noun someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God
originFrom Middle English prophete, from Anglo-Norman prophete, from Latin prophēta, from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “one who speaks for a god”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + φημί (phēmí, “to tell”). Displaced native Old English wītga.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0