prognosticon

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prŏgnōstĭcon or -um, i, n., = προγνωστικόν,

a sign or token of the future, a prognostic; hence, prŏgnōstĭca , ōrum, n., the signs of the weather , Quint. 5, 9, 15.— Also as the title of Cicero's translation of the Προγνωστικά of Aratus, Cic. Div. 1, 8, 13; v. the fragments, id. Op. v. XI. p. 96 sqq. B. and K.