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PRODIGY

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 423 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRODIGY , an extraordinary or wonderful thing, See also:

person, event, &c.; something which excites amazement and astonishment. The See also:term has been particularly applied to See also:children who display a precocious See also:genius, especially in See also:music. The See also:German expression Wunderkind has of See also:late been often adopted by those who have found the name " See also:infant prodigy " too reminiscent of the " infant phenomenon " See also:familiar to readers of See also:Dickens. The See also:Lat. prodigium, an See also:omen, portent, and abnormal or monstrous event, is probably not to be derived from See also:pro and dicere, to foretell, prophesy, but rather, on the See also:analogy of adagium, adage, See also:aphorism, from pro (prot before a vowel), and the See also:root of aio, I say.

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