Prodigy

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.

II. Prodigy ·noun Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.

III. Prodigy ·noun Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.