# propheta
## Classical Nahuatl
### Etymology

From Spanish propheta (archaic spelling of profeta), from Latin prophēta, from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

propheta
* prophet
** 17C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Chimalpahin, Exercicio quotidiano, f. 4r.
    ca intlanel ce Angel. ahnoço aca huei sancto, ahnoço aca huei propheta xiqualmihualianiSupposing that You had sent an angel or some great saint or some great prophet here

### References

* Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Volume 2, →ISBN, pages 134–135

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* prophētēs

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /proˈpʰeː.ta/, [prɔˈpʰeːt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /proˈfe.ta/, [proˈfɛːt̪ä]

### Noun

prophēta m (genitive prophētae, feminine prophētis or prophētissa); first declension
* prophet, soothsayer
** Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 29:1:et haec sunt verba libri quae misit Hieremias propheta de Hierusalem […]Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem […]

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* prophētālis
* prophētātiō
* prophētissa
* prophētīzō
* prophētō

#### Related terms

* prophētīa
* prophētiālis
* prophēticē
* prophēticus
* prophētis

#### Descendants

* Asturian: profeta
* Catalan: profeta
* → German: Prophet
* Italian: profeta
* Middle English: prophete, profyt, profyte, profite, prophett, prophet, profiete
** English: prophet
*** Tok Pisin: profet
** Scots: prophet
* → Old French: prophete, profete
** Middle French: prophete
*** French: prophète
** → Middle Dutch: prophete
*** Dutch: profeet, propheet (archaic)
**** Afrikaans: profeet
**** Negerhollands: profeet
**** → Papiamentu: profeet (dated)
**** → Sranan Tongo: profeiti
* → Old Norse: prófeti
** Danish: profet
** Norwegian: profet
** Swedish: profet
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: profeta, propheta
** Galician: profeta
** Portuguese: profeta
* Romansch: profet
* → Old Spanish: propheta, profeta
** Spanish: profeta, propheta (obsolete)
*** → Cebuano: propeta
*** → Classical Nahuatl: propheta
*** → Tagalog: propeta, pulupeta
* → Proto-Brythonic: *profuïd
** Breton: profed
** Welsh: proffwyd

### References

* “propheta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* propheta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* profeta

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prophēta, borrowed from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs), from προ- (pro-) + φημί (phēmí) + -της (-tēs).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈfeta/

### Noun

propheta m or f (plural prophetas)
* prophet
** 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 42ra:dixo el ppħa [propheta] lo q̃ el criador puſie / re em mi boca eſſo fablare […]The prophet said: "that which the creator puts in my mouth, that is what I shall speak."
** 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 42rb:agora por eſto ppħizauan tus / pphetas falsedat.And now because of this your prophets make false prophecies.

#### Related terms

* prophecia
* prophetizar

#### Descendants

* Spanish: profeta, propheta (obsolete)
** → Cebuano: propeta
** → Classical Nahuatl: propheta
** → Tagalog: propeta, pulupeta