Other forms: prophets
A prophet is a person believed to speak the words of a god. A false prophet, the prophets of old, a prophet of doom.
The job is speaking for a god rather than predicting, which is what the Greek says — prediction came to dominate the English sense. A prophet is not without honour save in his own country is biblical. A prophet of doom is a pessimist. Note the spelling against profit.
1nounprophetA person believed to speak the words of a god.
“The prophet warned the people that disaster would come if they did not change their ways.”
prophet is a religious figure.
Greek prophetes means one who speaks for a god — pro, before or for, plus phanai, to speak. Fame and blame come from related speaking.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Ancient Greek
προφήτης — one who speaks for a god
Latin
prophēta
Anglo-Norman
prophete
Middle English
prophete
English, today
prophet
Built from
From Middle English prophete, from Anglo-Norman prophete, from Latin prophēta, from Ancient Greek προφήτης (“one who speaks for a god”), from πρό (“before”) + φημί (“to tell”). Displaced native wītga.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA