# praedico
## Latin
### Etymology 1

From prae- (“before, in front”) +‎ dicō (“dedicate, assign to”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈprae̯.di.koː/, [ˈpräe̯d̪ɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpre.di.ko/, [ˈprɛːd̪iko]

#### Verb

praedicō (present infinitive praedicāre, perfect active praedicāvī, supine praedicātum); first conjugation
* to proclaim, declare publicly
    Synonyms: indīcō, nū̆ncupō, prōdō, renūntiō, nūntiō, dēnūntiō, adnūntiō, ēdīcō, profiteor, referō, cōntiōnor
* to announce, make known
* to praise, commend, extol
    Synonyms: laudō, collaudō, mīrō, amplificō, efferō, augeō, admīror, intueor
* (Ecclesiastical Latin) to preach (the gospel, a sermon, etc.)
* (philosophy) to predicate
    Et ideo in rebus, ex materia et forma compositis, essentia non est omnino idem quod subiectum; unde non prædicatur de subiecto: non enim dicitur quod Socrates sit una humanitas. -Sanctus Thomas Aquinas, Quæstiones de Potentia Dei, Q9, A1 | And therefore in things, from matter and form composite, essence is not altogether the same as the subject; whence it can not be predicated concerning the subject: for it is not said that Socrates might be the one human-nature.

##### Derived terms

* praedicāmentum
* praedicātiō
* praedicātīvus
* praedicātor
* praedicātōrius
* praedicātrīx

##### Related terms

* praecō
* praecōnium
* praecōnius
* praecōnor

##### Descendants

* Franco-Provençal: prègiér
* Istriot: pridigà
* → Italian: predicare
* → Occitan: predicar, presicar
* Old French: prëechier
** French: prêcher
** Norman: prêchi
** → Middle English: prechen
*** English: preach
**** → Kashubian: préczowac (United States)
**** → Manx: preaçh
* Old Galician-Portuguese: preegar
** Galician: pregar
** Portuguese: pregar
* Old Spanish: preigar
* Piedmontese: predì
* Sicilian: pridicari
* → Catalan: predicar
* → Portuguese: predicar
* → Romanian: predica
* → English: predicate (learned)
* → Esperanto: prediki
* → Hungarian: prédikál
* → Ido: predikar
* → Old Irish: pridchaid
* → Proto-West Germanic: *predigōn (see there for further descendants)
* → Spanish: predicar

### Etymology 2

From prae- (“before, in front”) +‎ dīcō (“say, tell”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /prae̯ˈdiː.koː/, [präe̯ˈd̪iːkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /preˈdi.ko/, [preˈd̪iːko]

#### Verb

praedīcō (present infinitive praedīcere, perfect active praedīxī, supine praedictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
* to foretell, predict
    Synonyms: vāticinor, praesāgiō, canō, praemoneō, portendō, moneō
* to notify, give warning of, admonish, charge with what should be done
    Synonyms: moneō, admoneō, praecipiō, condicō
* to advise
    Synonyms: suādeō, commendō, cēnseō, conciliō, moneō, admoneō, dēlīberō
* to announce at an auction

##### Conjugation

$^1$Old Latin.

##### Derived terms

* praedictiō
* praedictīvus
* praedictum
* praedictus

##### Descendants

* Italian: predire
* Old Occitan:
** Catalan: predir
* Old Galician-Portuguese:
** Galician: predicir
** Portuguese: predizer
* Old Spanish:
** Spanish: predecir
* Romanian: prezice
* → English: predict
* → Middle French: predire
** French: prédire

### References

* “praedico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “praedico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* praedico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to spread a person's praises: alicuius laudes praedicare to consider happy: aliquem beatum praedicare without wishing to boast, yet..: quod vere praedicare possum