Neo- \Ne"o-\ [Gr. ? youthful, new. See New.]
A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.
Prodigy \Prod"i*gy\, n.; pl. Prodigies. [ L. prodigium; pro before + (perh.) a word appearing in adagium adage: cf. F. prodige. Cf. Adage. ]
1. Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. --Milton.
2. Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.
3. A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster. --B. Jonson.
Syn: Wonder; miracle; portent; marvel; monster.
NeoProdigy est. 1998