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Prescient

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means having knowledge or insight into events before they happen
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Stage 1 of 3
prae
Latin · ancient
"before"
before, combined with sciens (knowing, from scire, to know)
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Stage 2 of 3
praesciens
Latin · ancient
"knowing beforehand"
knowing beforehand, from prae- (before) and sciens (knowing)
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Stage 3 of 3
prescient
English · 1620s
"having knowledge of events before they happen"
settled as the English word for having knowledge of events before they happen
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