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+ {{homograph|1|proclaim, praise}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈprae̯.dɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈprɛː.di.ko]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''praedicō''' (present infinitive praedicāre, perfect active praedicāvī, supine praedicātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The verb “to proclaim” is a compound of [[prae-|t=before, in front]] and [[dicō#1|alt=dicō]] “to proclaim, dedicate”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus has “you tell me what neither is, nor was, nor will be”, and uses it of a public crier announcing an auction.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Its first use was of the crier, the ''praecō'', who proclaimed sales in public, as in Plautus and Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In general it meant to make known, declare or assert, as Caesar's men reporting the huge size of the Germans.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also meant to praise or extol, a common sense in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to preach the gospel, and in philosophy to predicate.^(Wiktionary) Through Old French ''preechier'' it gave English [[m|en|preach]], and its participle gave [[m|en|predicate]].^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a crier and of telling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of proclaiming and praising.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of reports about the Germans.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ * mid-15th century – English [[m|en|predicate]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|proclaim]] (as a crier), announce publicly.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
+ # To declare, assert, make known.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To [[m|en|praise]], extol.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To [[m|en|preach]].^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(philosophy)'' To [[m|en|predicate]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[praedicātiō]]
+ * [[praedicātor]]
+ * [[praedicāmentum]]
+ * [[praedicātīvus]]
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+ {{homograph|2|foretell}}
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{{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Naevius|origins=la dīcō}}
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* [[en|predict]]
* [[en|prediction]]
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− ==Usage notes==
− A separate first-conjugation verb ''praedicō, praedicāre'', from [[prae-]] and [[dicō]] “to proclaim”, means to proclaim, praise, and in Ecclesiastical Latin to preach; it gave [[en|preach]] and [[en|predicate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Etymonline)
+ * [[en|preach]]
==References==