Meanings (ES + gloss)
cosa extraña • maravilla • milagro • portento • prodigio
An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are told of him.
fenómeno • genio • niño prodigio • prodigio
An extremely talented person, especially a child.
agüero • augurio • auspicio • presagio
An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
These on the farther bank now stood and gazed, / By Heaven alarm’d, by prodigies amazed: / A signal omen stopp’d the passing host, / Their martial fury in their wonder lost.
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