praedicatioból

Praedicatioból is a term found in some Hungarian-language linguistic and discourse-analytical writings. It refers, in a narrow scholarly context, to the idea of deriving or referring to content from the predicate of a sentence. The form combines the Latin word praedicatio, meaning the act of declaring or the predicate, with the Hungarian ablative suffix -ból, meaning “from.” Because it is not a standard or widely adopted term, its precise meaning can vary between authors and texts.

The term is used mainly in theoretical discussions about predication, discourse structuring, and the ways in which predicative content can function as a source for subsequent clauses or interpretations. It often appears in analyses of reported speech, quotational constructions, or predication-based argument structures, where attention is paid to how the predicate informs or governs other parts of a sentence or discourse. Due to its specialized nature, praedicatioból is rarely encountered outside academic articles and is not typically found in standard grammars or dictionaries.

Etymologically, praedicatioból derives from Latin praedicatio, with the suffix -ból marking the ablative in Hungarian, yielding a sense of “from the predicate” or “out of the predicate.” In practice, scholars employing the term emphasize its role as a descriptive tool for particular syntactic or discursive phenomena, rather than as a universally defined grammatical category.

See also: predication, predicate, reported speech, indirect discourse, quotation in linguistics.