prescient
‘having prescience’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. praescient < F. prescient < Lat. praescientem < praescire ‘to know in advance’ < prae ‘before’ + scire ‘to know’ < O.F. science ‘knowledge, learning, application; corpus of human knowledge’ < Lat. scientia ‘knowledge, a knowing; expertness’ < sciens ‘intelligent, skilled’ < scire ‘to know’ < scindere ‘to cut, divide’ < seeuhn < skei- < Tamil kappu