praedico
Latin
Etymology 1
From prae- (“before, in front”) + dicō (“declare, say”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈprae̯.di.koː/, [ˈpräe̯d̪ɪkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.di.ko/, [ˈprɛːd̪iko]
Verb
praedicō (present infinitive praedicāre, perfect active praedicāvī, supine praedicātum); first conjugation
- I proclaim, declare publicly.
- I announce, make known.
- I praise, commend, extol.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) I preach the gospel.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From prae- (“before, in front”) + dīcō (“say, tell”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /prae̯ˈdiː.koː/, [präe̯ˈd̪iːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /preˈdi.ko/, [preˈd̪iːko]
Verb
praedīcō (present infinitive praedīcere, perfect active praedīxī, supine praedictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- I foretell, predict.
- I notify, give warning of.
- I advise, admonish, charge with what should be done.
- I announce at an auction.
Conjugation
1Archaic.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: predire
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: predir
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- 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[1], 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
- to spread a person's praises: alicuius laudes praedicare
Categories:
- Latin terms prefixed with prae-
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Ecclesiastical Latin
- Latin first conjugation verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -av-
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin irregular verbs
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook