1 | verb | make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition 2 | verb | affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of 3 | verb | involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic 4 | noun | (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula 5 | noun | one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements (5 meanings)

pr'eduhk, eyt (IPA: prˈɛdəkˌeɪt)

pred-i-cate (9 letters | 3 syllables)

1532 (European Renaissance) (493 years ago)

Latin

predicated | predicating | predicates

proclaim | connote | verb phrase

copula

interrelate | relate | assert | asseverate | maintain | imply | term | phrase (total: 8)

dedicate | rededicate (based on typical American pronunciation)

eradicate | predicable | predicative

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predicate calculus

Spanish: | predicado (linguistics) French: | prédicat (linguistics) Portuguese: | predicado (linguistics) German: | Prädikat (linguistics) Japanese: | 述語 (common noun) | 述部 (common noun)

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14 (International English) | 14 (North American English)