prodigy

Etymology

From Middle English prodige (“portent”), from Latin prōdigium (“omen, portent, prophetic sign”).

noun

1. (now rare) An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
   John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 87
   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. 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XII
2. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
3. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
4. A wonderful example of something.
5. An extremely talented person, especially a child.