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Etymology 1
From Middle French predicat (French prédicat), from post-classical L. praedicatum �thing said of a subject�, a noun use of the neuter past participle of praedicare �proclaim�, as Etymology 2, below.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�pr�dɪk�t/

Noun
en-noun

1. grammar The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject.

#:In "The dog barked very loudly", the subject is "the dog" and the predicate is "barked very loudly".

1. logic A statement that may be true or false depending on the values of its variables.
2. computing An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Derived terms
nominal predicative
predicate calculus
predicative adjective
predicatively

Translations
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Bulgarian: �каз�емо (skazuemo) n
Czech: p�ísudek m
Dutch: gezegde n
Esperanto: predikato
Finnish: predikaatti
French: prédicat m
German: Prädikat n
Icelandic: umsögn f, umsagnarliður m
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Ido: predikato m
Interlingua: predicato
Russian: п�едика� (predikát) m
Spanish: predicado m
Swedish: (ett) predikat
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Czech: predikát m
Esperanto: predikato
French: prédicat m
German: Prädikat n
Icelandic: umsagnarökfræði f
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Russian: п�едика� (predikát) m
Spanish: predicado m
Swedish: ett predikat
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Etymology 2
From the participle stem of L. praedicare, from prae- �pre-� + dicare �proclaim�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�pr�dɪ�keɪt/

Verb
en-verb|predicat|ing

1. transitive To announce or assert publically.
2. context|transitive|logic To state, assert.
3. transitive To suppose, assume; to infer.

#* 1859: There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. � Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
#*1881: Of anyone else it would have been said that she must be finding the afternoon rather dreary in the quaint halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely. � Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean

1. context|transitive|originally|US To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.

#*1978: the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. � Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, p. 81)

Translations
trans-top|to base on, to assert on the grounds of
Icelandic: byggja á, grundvalla á
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Italian

Verb
predicate

1. second person plural present tense and imperative of predicare

Category:Italian verb forms

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• 2007-12-16 01:21 - 99.238.19.174 - spelling error: 'assert'

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