praedicamentum

Latin

Etymology

From praedicō (“to declare, proclaim, predicate”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix). Calque of Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “predication, category”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /prae̯.di.kaːˈmen.tum/, [präe̯d̪ɪkäːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.di.kaˈmen.tum/, [pred̪ikäˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

praedicāmentum n (genitive praedicāmentī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) that which is predicated, a predicament, category
2. (Medieval Latin) a preaching, discourse

Declension

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

• antepraedicāmentum
• postpraedicāmentum

Descendants

• → Catalan: predicament (learned)
• → Old French: predicament (learned)
  • → Middle English: predicament
    • English: predicament
  • French: prédicament
    • → Romanian: predicament
• → Galician: predicamento (learned)
• → Italian: predicamento (learned)
• → Occitan: predicament (learned)
• → Portuguese: predicamento (learned)
• → Spanish: predicamento (learned)

Further reading

• “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.