From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en] ([fr]), from [en], substantivized from the
[nominative] [neuter] [singular] of [la], the [perfect] [passive] [participle]
[la], see [en]; see also Etymology 2 below.
The [adjective] was derived from the [noun] by [metanalysis], see [en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Noun
{{examples|sense=grammar|
- The dog <u> barked very loudly </u> .
}} [en-noun]
1. [en] [en] The part of the sentence (or clause ) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1988 | author=Andrew Radford | title=Transformational grammar: a first course | location=Cambridge, UK | publisher=Cambridge University Press | page=438 | chapter=8
|passage=In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a
sentence like:<br> (120) _They_ seem to me [<sub>S</sub> — to be
_fools_/<sup><small>✽</small></sup>_a fool_]<br> Here, the PREDICATE Nominal
_fools_ agrees with the italicised NP _they_, in spite of the fact that (as we
argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at S-structure.
How can this be? Under the NP <small>MOVEMENT</small> analysis of _seem_
structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that _they_
originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can
say that the PREDICATE Nominal agrees with the _underlying_ Subject of its
Clause. How does _they_ get from its underlying position as subordinate
Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP
<small>MOVEMENT</small>, of course!}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1988 | author=Andrew Radford | title=Transformational grammar: a first course | location=Cambridge, UK | publisher=Cambridge University Press | page=323 | chapter=6
|passage=Thus, in (121) (a) _persuade_ is clearly a _three-place PREDICATE_ —
that is, a PREDICATE which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments
is the Subject NP _John_, the second is the Primary Object NP _Mary_, and the
third is the Secondary Object S-bar [_that she should resign_]. By contrast,
_believe_ in (121) (b) is clearly a _two-place PREDICATE_ (i.e. a PREDICATE
which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP _John_, and its
second Argument is the Object S-bar [_that Mary was innocent_].}}
1. [en] A term of a statement , where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the value s of the statement's variable s has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
2. [en] An operator or function that returns either true or false.
***** Translations
[grammar: part of sentence that states something about its subject]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th] [verb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] ( [vi] )
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[logic: a term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[computing: an operator or function that returns either true or false]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. [en] Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
2. Predicated , stated .
3. [en] Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated. < !-- (from see https://web.archive.org/web/20100216123226/http://research.lawyers.com/glossary/predicate.html ) -->
***** Derived terms
{{col3 |en|nominal predicative|predicate adjective |predicatable |predicate
calculus |predicative adjective |predicatively |compound predicate
word|monadic predicate logic|predicate logic|predicate noun }}
***** Translations
[grammar: of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[predicated, stated]
[law: relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which
prosecution for racketeering may be predicated] [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[en] From [en], [perfect] [passive] [participle] of [la] (see [en]), further
from [la] + [la], related to [la]. [en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To announce , assert , or proclaim publicly .
2. [en] To assume or suppose ; to infer .
3. * [chapter=The Wine-shop]
4. * [volume=II]
5. [en] to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
6. * 1978 , Michel Foucault, _The Will to Knowledge_ , trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81):
7. *: The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is PREDICATED .
8. [en] To make a term (or expression ) the predicate of a statement .
9. [en] To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
10. * 1911 , _Encyclopedia Britannica_ , Basa Sunda: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Conceptualism
11. *: This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is PREDICATED of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).
***** Translations
[to announce or assert publicly]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to assume or suppose; to infer]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to base on, to assert on the grounds of]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[logic: to assert or state as an attribute or quality of something]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Ido
*** Pronunciation
[io-IPA]
*** Verb
[adv]
1. [predic]
** Italian
*** Etymology 1
**** Verb
[it]
1. [it]
*** Etymology 2
**** Participle
[it]
1. [it]
*** Anagrams
- [it]
** Spanish
*** Verb
[es]
1. [predicar]