predict Copy link Outline 1. praedīco, xi, ctum, 32. vātĭcĭnor, 1; căno, 33. augŭror, less freq. -o, 1 (as a soothsayer, on the strength of certain signs) • predict: 1. praedīco, xi, ctum, 3: to p. what is to come to pass. futura p., Cic. Div. 1, init.: Virg. (Not necessarily a supernatural act: hence, pr. eclipsim, to p. an eclipse, Plin.) 2. vātĭcĭnor, 1; căno, 3: v. to prophesy. 3. augŭror, less freq. -o, 1 (as a soothsayer, on the strength of certain signs): Calchas from the number of the sparrows p.'d the duration of the Trojan war, C. ex passerum numero belli Trojani annos auguratus est, Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72: Tac. (Auguror does not necessarily imply the uttering of the prophetic foreboding: v. to forebode, II.)