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English

Alternative forms

• prædict (archaic)

Etymology

Early 17th century, from Latin praed?c? (“to mention beforehand”) (perfect passive participle praedictus), from prae- (“before”) + d?c? (“to say”). Equivalent to Germanic forespeak, foretell, and foresay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

predict (third-person singular simple present predicts, present participle predicting, simple past and past participle predicted)

1. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
   • 1590, E. Daunce, A Briefe Discourse on the Spanish State, 40

     After he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar, was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil. which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the euent the same predicted.

   • 2000, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, xiii.

     Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.

   • 2012, Jeremy Bernstein, "A Palette of Particles" in American Scientist, Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146

     The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.

2. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
   • 1886, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 177. 338

     It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.

   • 1996 June 3, Geoffrey Cowley. The biology of beauty, Newsweek

     For both men and women, greater symmetry predicted a larger number of past sex partners.

3. (intransitive) To make predictions.
   • 1652, J. Gaule, ???-?????? the mag-astro-mancer, 196

     The devil can both predict and make predictors.

4. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
   • 1943, L. Cheshire, Bomber Pilot, iii. 57

     They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.

Synonyms

• foretell, forespell, forespeak, halsen

Antonyms

• retrodict

Related terms

Translations

Noun

predict (plural predicts)

1. (obsolete) A prediction.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 14:

     Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “predict”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle French

Verb

predict

1. past participle of predire

English

Alternative forms

• halson, halzen, hazon

Etymology

From halse (“to salute, beseech”) +? -en. Related to Middle High German heilsen (“to predict”). More at halse.

Verb

halsen (third-person singular simple present halsens, present participle halsening, simple past and past participle halsened)

1. (transitive) To predict; promise.
2. (intransitive) To promise; bode; bid (fair or ill).

Derived terms

• halseny

Anagrams

• Hanels, Hansel, Lehans, Leshan, hansel, lanseh

Danish

Noun

halsen c

1. definite singular of hals

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?halzn?/

Verb

halsen (weak, third-person singular present halst, past tense halste, past participle gehalst, auxiliary haben)

1. (nautical) to jib (shift or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc.)

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology 1

hals (“neck”) +? -en

Verb

halsen (simple past halsed or hawsid)

1. to embrace, caress

Alternative forms

• hals, halse, hallesyn

Descendants

• English: halse
• Scots: hause

References

• “halsen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English h?lsian and healsian, from Proto-Germanic *hailis?n? (“to greet; to beseech”).

Verb

halsen (simple past halsed or halyst, past participle halsed or ihalset)

1. to beseech

Alternative forms

• hals, halse, halsien, halsi, halsi?e, halsow

Derived terms

• halsnen

Descendants

• English: halse
• Scots: hals, halse

References

• “halsen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

halsen

1. Alternative form of halsnen

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

halsen m

1. definite singular of hals

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

halsen m

1. definite singular of hals

Swedish

Noun

halsen

1. definite singular of hals