Prognostischen

Prognostischen is the inflected form of the German adjective prognostisch, which designates something related to prognosis or forecasting. The related noun Prognose denotes a forecast or prognosis, and the verb prognostizieren means to forecast. The term is common in scientific, medical, and technical language to describe forecasts, assessments, or models intended to anticipate future events.

Historically, prognostisch derives from the Greek prognostikos, through Latin and into German. In contemporary usage, it appears as a modifier in phrases such as prognostische Modelle, prognostische Einschätzungen or prognostischen Daten, and is declined according to grammatical case and gender.

In practice, prognostisch is used across disciplines: in medicine to discuss the likely course of a disease (prognostische Einschätzung der Prognose), in meteorology and climatology for weather or climate forecasts, and in economics or engineering for predictive models and risk assessments. The broader field concerned with forecasting and prognosis is Prognostik, while the noun Prognose is used for a specific forecast.

See also: Prognose, Prognostik, Prognostizierung.