προγνωστικός
τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζειν → call a spade a spade | speak the truth | speak straight from the shoulder | give it straight from the shoulder | give the straight goods | not to mince matters | not to mince words | not mince words | call things by their right names | call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel | call a shovel a shovel | call a spade a spade, not a big spoon
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A foreknowing, prescient, δύναμις Ph.1.659, 2.164; μόριον . . τῆς ψυχῆς Plu.2.433a; of persons, M.Ant.8.25; esp. of astrologers, Vett.Val.37.28, al.: c. gen., π. τῆς κινήσεως τῶν νοσημάτων Gal.17(1).243: τὸ π. a sign of the future, prognostic, Gp.1.2 tit.: προγνωστικόν, τό, name of a treatise by Hp.; also title of work by Epicurus, D.L.10.28; but -κή, ἡ, name of an antidote, Damocr. ap. Gal.14.134. Adv.-κῶς Gloss.
German (Pape)
[Seite 714] ή, όν, zum Vorherwissen, zum Voraussagen gehörig, Sp., wie Plut. de def. orac. 42; τὸ προγνωστικόν, Vorzeichen, Wahrzeichen der Zukunft.
