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predicare

Predicare is a verb in Italian and Latin that means to declare, announce or proclaim, and it has specialized uses in modern Italian and in scholarly contexts. In everyday language, predicare most often appears with the sense of delivering a sermon or religious homily, especially when referring to priests or preachers who deliver public talks on faith or morality. The expression predicare una lezione or predicare bene e razzolare male is sometimes used in idiomatic form to contrast preaching with personal conduct.

In addition to its religious sense, predicare has a technical meaning in philosophy, logic and linguistics:

Etymology and related forms: predicare derives from the Latin praedicare, formed from prae- “before” and dicare

See also: predicato, predicazione, predicazione logica.

to
predicate.
In
this
sense,
predicare
means
to
attribute
a
property
or
relation
to
a
subject,
i.e.,
to
say
that
a
subject
possesses
a
certain
attribute.
This
use
is
common
in
discussions
of
grammar
and
predicate
logic,
where
the
term
predicato
(the
predicate)
and
predicazione
(the
act
of
predicating
or
the
content
of
a
predicate)
are
central.
(related
to
dicere,
“to
say”).
The
Latin
term
evolved
into
the
modern
Italian
predicare,
with
closely
related
forms
in
other
Romance
languages
(Spanish
predicar,
French
prédication).
The
noun
predicazione
or
the
term
predicato
is
used
in
grammar
and
logic
to
refer
to
the
predicate
itself.