"vates" meaning in English

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        "1": "cy",
        "2": "gwawd"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh gwawd",
      "name": "cog"
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        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*wōdaz",
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        "4": "mad"
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "2": "wōd",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mad, frenzied"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "possessed, mad"
      },
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        "4": "mad, madness"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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          "word": "sacer vates"
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          "ref": "1833 May, “Hayward’s Translation of Goethe’s “Faust””, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume VII, number XLI, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 532, column 1:",
          "text": "[Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.",
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          "ref": "1999, Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton, Cambridge University Press, page 57:",
          "text": "The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.",
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        "A poet or bard who is divinely inspired."
      ],
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          "poet"
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          "bard",
          "bard"
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          "divinely",
          "divinely"
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        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ovat",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "word": "оват"
        },
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          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "vat"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "word": "vaatti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "word": "vate"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "word": "vátesz"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "vate"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "vate"
        },
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
          "word": "vates"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈveɪtiz/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vates"
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    {
      "word": "sacer vates"
    }
  ],
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        "4": "seer"
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      "name": "cog"
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        "2": "ουατεις",
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "1": "sga",
        "2": "fáith"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish fáith",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "2": "gwawd"
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      "name": "cog"
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        "2": "*wōdaz",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mad"
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      "name": "cog"
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        "4": "mad, frenzied"
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "possessed, mad"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “possessed, mad”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "1": "goh",
        "2": "wuot",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mad, madness"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin vātēs, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”); cognate with Proto-Celtic *wātis (“seer”) (Gaulish ουατεις, Old Irish fáith, Welsh gwawd) and Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“mad”) (Old English wōd (“mad, frenzied”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “possessed, mad”), Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”). More at wood (“crazy, mad, insane”) and wode.",
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        "Terms with French translations",
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        "Terms with Welsh translations",
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          "text": "[Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton, Cambridge University Press, page 57:",
          "text": "The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.",
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        }
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      ],
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          "divinely"
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      "ipa": "/ˈveɪtiz/"
    }
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ovat",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "оват"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vaatti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vate"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vátesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vate"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vate"
    },
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      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "divinely inspired poet",
      "word": "vates"
    }
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  "word": "vates"
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