PRODIGY  , an extraordinary or wonderful thing, See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, event, &c.; something which excites amazement and astonishment . The See also:

• TERM

term has been particularly applied to See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children who display a precocious See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, especially in See also:

• MUSIC

music . The See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German expression Wunderkind has of See also:

• LATE

late been often adopted by those who have found the name " See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant prodigy " too reminiscent of the " infant phenomenon " See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar to readers of See also:

• DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812-187o)

Dickens . The See also:

• LAT

Lat. prodigium, an See also:

• OMEN (a Latin word, either connected with os, mouth, or more probably with auris (Gr. ois, ear; apparently, meaning " a thing heard " or " spoken ")

omen, portent, and abnormal or monstrous event, is probably not to be derived from See also:

• PRO

pro and dicere, to foretell, prophesy, but rather, on the See also:

• ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy of adagium, adage, See also:

• APHORISM
• APHORISM (from the Gr. a4oA'ecv, to define)

aphorism, from pro (prot before a vowel), and the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root of aio, I say .