Meaning

noun someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

noun one who practices magic or sorcery

adjective possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; ; ; ; - Shakespeare

originFrom Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates inside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance. However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with…

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