prognosis

名词 n.
/pɹɒɡˈnəʊsɪs/|/pɹɒɡˈnəʊsiːz/    /pɹɑɡˈnoʊsɪs/|/-səs/|/pɹɑɡˈnoʊsiz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on what is presently known; a prediction.
    — I may say here that it is one of the evidences of original character, that it is apt to baffle all prognosis from a mere observer's standpoint.
  2. A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.
    — Hovvbeit it is to be noted (vvhich vve hinted in the prognoſis) that the ſvvelling doth often appear critically and profitably, and thereby the ſick are recovered of their diſeaſes; […]

词形变化

prognoses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *próder.
Ancient Greek πρό (pró)
Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.
Ancient Greek γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)
Ancient Greek πρόγνωσῐς (prógnōsĭs)bor.
Late Latin prognōsislbor.
English prognosis
Learned borrowing from Late Latin prognōsis (“forecast, prediction; forecast of the course and outcome of a disease”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόγνωσις (prógnōsis, “forecast of the course and outcome of a disease; (Koine) foreknowledge, perceiving beforehand, prediction”), from προ- (pro-, prefix meaning ‘before; beforehand’) + γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs, “inquiry, investigation; knowledge”). The plural prognoses is a learned borrowing from Late Latin prognōsēs.
Cognates
* Middle French prognosie (“forecast, prediction”) (modern French prognosie (obsolete), prognose (“forecast of the course and outcome of a disease”))
* Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā, “intelligence, wisdom; judgment; knowledge”)
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