Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin praedicare (to proclaim, announce).[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈpreːdikaːl]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: pré‧di‧kál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb edit

prédikál

  1. (transitive, intransitive, religion) to preach (to give a sermon)
  2. (transitive, derogatory) to preach, lecture, scold (to give lengthy moral instructions expressing reproach)

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading edit