Predicate

Noun

 * 1)  The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject.
 * In "The dog barked very loudly", the subject is "the dog" and the predicate is "barked very loudly".
 * 1)  A statement that may be true or false depending on the values of its variables.
 * 2)  An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Derived terms

 * nominal predicative
 * predicatable
 * predicate calculus
 * predicative adjective
 * predicatively

Verb

 * 1)  To announce or assert publicly.
 * 2)  To state, assert.
 * 3)  To suppose, assume; to infer.
 * 4) * 1859: There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
 * 5) * 1881: Of anyone else it would have been said that she must be finding the afternoon rather dreary in the quaint halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely. — Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean
 * 6)  To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
 * 7) * 1978: the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. — Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, p. 81)

Thesaurus
IC analysis, advance, affirm, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allege, announce, announcement, annunciate, annunciation, appositive, argue, assert, assertion, assever, asseverate, asseveration, attribute, attributive, aver, averment, avouch, avouchment, avow, avowal, bottom, complement, conclusion, construction modifier, contend, creed, cutting, declaration, declare, deep structure, depose, dictum, direct object, enunciate, enunciation, establish, express, filler, form-function unit, found, function, ground, have, hold, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object, insist, ipse dixit, issue a manifesto, lay down, levels, maintain, manifesto, modifier, object, phrase structure, pose, posit, position, position paper, positive declaration, postulate, predication, proclaim, proclamation, profess, profession, pronounce, pronouncement, propose, proposition, propound, protest, protestation, put, put it, qualifier, ranks, rest, say, say-so, saying, set down, set forth, shallow structure, slot, slot and filler, speak, speak out, speak up, stance, stand, stand for, stand on, state, statement, stay, strata, structure, subject, submit, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, underlying structure, utterance, vouch, word, word arrangement, word order

Etymology 1
From predicate: (French prédicat), from post-classical  praedicatum:, a noun use of the neuter past participle of predico:, as Etymology 2, below.

Etymology 2
From praedicatus:, perfect passive participle of praedico:, from prae: + dico: < dico:.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 謂語, 谓语,  述語,  述语
 * Croatian: predikat,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: umsögn, umsagnarliður
 * Ido: predikato
 * Interlingua: predicato
 * Japanese: 述語
 * Macedonian: прирок
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: predicat
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: (ett) predikat


 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: umsagnarökfræði
 * Japanese: 述語


 * Persian: محمول
 * Polish: predykat
 * Romanian: predicat
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ett predikat

Verb

 * Finnish: ,


 * Romanian: (a) predica


 * Finish:


 * Finish:


 * Icelandic: byggja á, grundvalla á

Verb
predicate


 * 1) second-person plural present tense and imperative of predicare

Anagrams

 * decrepita, decrepità, deprecati