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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: prodigium 'sign telling the future, monster'

prodigy

 noun
     
prod‧i‧gy plural prodigies [countable]
a young person who has a great natural ability in a subject or skill
Mozart was a musical prodigy.
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