From Middle English prodige, from Latin prōdigium.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈpɹɒdɪd͡ʒi/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpɹɑdɪd͡ʒi/

prodigy (plural prodigies)

1. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak. [from 16th c.]
2. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder. [from 17th c.]
   • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter XXXII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC ↗, page 153 ↗:

     He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are told of him.

3. A wonderful example of something. [from 17th c.]
4. An extremely talented person, especially a child. [from 17th c.]
5. (archaic) An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent. [from 15th c.]
   • 1717, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XII”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC ↗:

     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.

   • 1727, William Warburton, “Part I”, in A Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as Related by Historians. […], London: […] Thomas Corbett, […], →OCLC ↗, page 1 ↗:

     Prodigies and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than Polybius has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called Tragedies than History.

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 87:

     John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.

• (extremely talented person) wunderkind, girl wonder, girl-genius, boy-genius, boy wonder, child prodigy.

• French: prodige, prodigie, miracle, merveille
• German: Wunder
• Italian: prodigio
• Portuguese: prodígio, maravilha
• Russian: чудо
• Spanish: maravilla, prodigio, portento, cosa extraña, milagro

• French: enfant prodige (of a child), génie, phénomène
• German: Wunderkind (chiefly of a child), Genie, Hochbegabter, Naturtalent
• Italian: prodigio, fenomeno
• Portuguese: prodígio
• Russian: вундерки́нд
• Spanish: prodigio, fenómeno, genio, niño prodigio

• French: présage, augure, auspices
• German: Orakel
• Italian: presagio
• Portuguese: presságio
• Spanish: presagio, augurio, agüero, auspicio