different between preominate vs predominate

English

Etymology

From pre +? ominate.

Verb

preominate (third-person singular simple present preominates, present participle preominating, simple past and past participle preominated)

1. (obsolete, rare) To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
2. (obsolete, rare) To be a portent or omen of.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

     Because many ravens were seen when Alexander entered Babylon, they were thought to preominate his death; and because an owl appeared before the battle, it presaged the ruin of Crassus.

Anagrams

• permeation

English

Alternative forms

• prædominate (obsolete)

Verb

predominate (third-person singular simple present predominates, present participle predominating, simple past and past participle predominated)

1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

Synonyms

• preponderate
• prevail

Translations

Adjective

predominate

1. Predominant.

Usage notes

• Predominate is and has been much less common than predominant as an adjective.
• Some usage and style authorities frown on predominate as an adjective. For example, Garner's Modern American Usage calls it a "needless variant" and discourages its use on the grounds that it might cause a reader to interpret it as the verb, which has the same spelling.

Translations

Italian

Verb

predominate

1. second-person plural present indicative of predominare
2. second-person plural imperative of predominare
3. feminine plural of predominato

Anagrams

• pena di morte, perdonatemi, premeditano, pretendiamo