predicate
Etymology 1
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Etymology 1
From Middle French predicat (French prédicat), from post-classical Late Latin praedicātum, a noun use of the neuter past participle of praedicō, as Etymology 2, below.
Pronunciation Nounpredicate (plural predicates)
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by. - (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.
- A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.
- A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.
- (computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.
- French: prédicat
- German: Prädikat, Satzaussage
- Italian: predicato
- Portuguese: predicado
- Russian: сказу́емое
- Spanish: predicado
predicate
- (grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
- Predicated, stated.
- (law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
From Latin praedicātus, perfect passive participle of praedicō, from prae + dicō, related to dīcō.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈpɹɛdɪˌkeɪt/
predicate (predicates, present participle predicating; simple past and past participle predicated)
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Wine-shop”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC ↗, book I (Recalled to Life), page 21 ↗:
- 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.
- 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC ↗, book the third (De Stancy), page 59 ↗:
- Of anyone else it would have been said that she was finding the afternoon rather dreary in the vast halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely.
- (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.
- 1978, Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81):
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (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”).
- 1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism
- Portuguese: supor
- Portuguese: basear-se em
- Portuguese: predicar
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