praedictivus

Forms

praedictīvus (feminine praedictīva, neuter praedictīvum); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin praedīcō² (“to foretell”) + -īvus, built on the participle ⟨praedictus⟩.^[1][2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Caelius Aurelianus, 5th century AD, uses it in medicine: he calls “predictive” the book that Hippocrates had named prorrheticum.^[3][2][4]

Semantic evolution

It stayed a rare medical word for the art of prognosis; the TLL compares ⟨praedictōrius⟩.^[2]

Timeline

• 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus uses it of a prognostic book of Hippocrates.^[3][2][4]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Foretelling, predictive.^[1][3]
2. (medicine) Prognostic.^[3][2]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de