-phemia, -phemic, -phemism, -pheme, -phemy +
(Greek: speak, talk; speech)
prophet
1. Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.
2. Someone who is an interpreter of the will of God.
3. Somebody who predicts the future.
4. Etymology: from Old French prophete (11th century), from Latin propheta, from Greek prophetes, "an interpreter, a spokesman"; especially, of the gods, from pro-, "before" + root of Greek phanai, "to speak".
prophetess
1. A woman who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.
2. A woman predictor or a woman soothsayer.
3. The chief spokeswoman of a movement or a cause.
prophetic
1. Predicting or foreshadowing something that does eventually happen.
2. Foretelling events as if by divine inspiration: "Her casual words turned out to be prophetic."
tachyphemia
1. An abnormal rapidity of speech.
2. Characterized by fast talking, or speaking with great speed, as seen in some mental disorders.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
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fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
phon-;
phras-;
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Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "divination, diviner; seer, soothsayer, prophecy, prophesy, prophet":
augur-;
auspic-;
fa-, fate;
Fates in action;
futur-;
-mancy;
omen;
sorc-, sorcery;
vati-.
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