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.

• (British) IPA: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kət/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/

predicate (plural predicates)

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

   Coordinate terms: adjunct, attribute

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.

   A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.

   A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.

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

• French: prédicat
• German: Prädikat, Satzaussage
• Italian: predicato
• Portuguese: predicado
• Russian: сказу́емое
• Spanish: predicado

• French: prédicat
• German: Prädikat
• Portuguese: predicado
• Russian: предика́т
• Spanish: predicado

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.

From Latin praedicātus, perfect passive participle of praedicō, from prae + dicō, related to dīcō.

• IPA: /ˈpɹɛdɪˌkeɪt/

predicate (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.
   • 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.

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”).

• Portuguese: pregar, predicar
• Spanish: predicar

• Portuguese: supor

• Portuguese: basear-se em

• Portuguese: predicar