different between predicate vs predicament

English

Alternative forms

• prædicate (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle French predicat (French prédicat), from post-classical Late Latin praedic?tum (“thing said of a subject”), a noun use of the neuter past participle of praedic? (“I proclaim”), as Etymology 2, below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??d?k?t/

Noun

predicate (plural predicates)

1. (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

   • In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a sentence like:
     (120)      They seem to me [_S — to be fools/^?a fool]
     Here, the Predicate Nominal fools agrees with the italicised NP they, in spite of the fact that (as we argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at S-structure. How can this be? Under the NP MOVEMENT analysis of seem structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that they originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can say that the Predicate Nominal agrees with the underlying Subject of its Clause. How does they get from its underlying position as subordinate Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP MOVEMENT, of course!

   • Thus, in (121) (a) persuade is clearly a three-place Predicate — that is, a Predicate which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments is the Subject NP John, the second is the Primary Object NP Mary, and the third is the Secondary Object S-bar [that she should resign]. By contrast, believe in (121) (b) is clearly a two-place Predicate (i.e. a Predicate which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP John, and its second Argument is the Object S-bar [that Mary was innocent].

2. (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

3. (computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Translations

Adjective

predicate (comparative more predicate, superlative most predicate)

1. (grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
2. Predicated, stated.
3. (law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

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Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin praedic?tus, perfect passive participle of praedic? (“publish, declare, proclaim”), from prae + dic? (“proclaim, dedicate”), related to d?c? (“say, tell”). Doublet of preach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??d??ke?t/

Verb

predicate (third-person singular simple present predicates, present participle predicating, simple past and past participle predicated)

1. (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
2. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
3. (transitive, originally US) to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
   • 1978, Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81):

     The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.

4. (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
5. (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
   • 1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism

     This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).

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Further reading

• predicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• predicate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• predicate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'preciated

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /predi?t?sate/

Verb

predicate

1. adverbial present passive participle of predicar

Italian

Verb

predicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of predicare
2. second-person plural imperative of predicare
3. feminine plural past participle of predicare

Anagrams

• decrepita, decrepità, deprecati

English

Alternative forms

• prædicament (chiefly obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French, from Late Latin praedicamentum (“that which is predicated, a predicament, category, Medieval Latin also a preaching, discourse”), from Latin praedicare (“to declare, proclaim, predicate”); see predicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?k?m?nt/

Noun

predicament (plural predicaments)

1. A definite class, state or condition.
2. An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot.
3. (logic) That which is predicated; a category

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Related terms

• preach
• predicate

Translations

See also

• can of worms
• difficulty
• kettle of fish
• tight spot
• trouble

References

• predicament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• predicament in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• predicament at OneLook Dictionary Search

Romanian

Etymology

From French prédicament.

Noun

predicament n (plural predicamente)

1. predicament

Declension