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Today's Word "fatidic"

Relating to prophecy on

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fatidic \fuh-TID-ik\ (adjective) - Of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.

"With a fatidic clarity that conies only occasionally and only to the young, she understood that, like the mythic marking of her purple-banded lake, this too was a sign, an omen." -- Kathleen Cambor, 'In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden'

 

Fatidic comes from Latin fatidicus, from fati- (from fatum, "fate") + -dicus (from dicere, "to say").


 

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