praedicamentum
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From praedicō (“to declare, proclaim, predicate”) + -mentum (noun suffix). Calque of Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “predication, category”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /prae̯.di.kaːˈmen.tum/, [präe̯d̪ɪkäːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pre.di.kaˈmen.tum/, [pred̪ikäˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun edit
praedicāmentum n (genitive praedicāmentī); second declension
- (Late Latin) that which is predicated, a predicament, category
- (Medieval Latin) a preaching, discourse
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | praedicāmentum | praedicāmenta |
| Genitive | praedicāmentī | praedicāmentōrum |
| Dative | praedicāmentō | praedicāmentīs |
| Accusative | praedicāmentum | praedicāmenta |
| Ablative | praedicāmentō | praedicāmentīs |
| Vocative | praedicāmentum | praedicāmenta |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: predicament (learned)
- → Old French: predicament (learned)
- → Middle English: predicament
- English: predicament
- French: prédicament
- → Romanian: predicament
- → Middle English: predicament
- → Galician: predicamento (learned)
- → Italian: predicamento (learned)
- → Occitan: predicament (learned)
- → Portuguese: predicamento (learned)
- → Spanish: predicamento (learned)
Further reading edit
- “praedicamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- praedicamentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- praedicamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.