predicar

Borrowed from Latin praedicāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.ðiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [pɾe.ðiˈkaɾ]
• Homophone: predicà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

predicar (first-person singular present predico, first-person singular preterite prediquí, past participle predicat)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to preach

• “predicar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “predicar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “predicar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “predicar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• padricar, pedricar

Attested since the 13th century. Learned borrowing from Latin praedicāre, present active infinitive of praedicō. Doublet of pregar.

predicar (first-person singular present predico, first-person singular preterite prediquei, past participle predicado)

1. to preach

• “predicar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “predicar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “predicar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “predicar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “predicar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “predicar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “predicar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From pre- +‎ dicar, a calque of English predict, French prédire, German vorhersagen, Italian predire, Russian предсказа́ть (predskazátʹ), Spanish predecir. Not to be confused with predikar.

• IPA^(key): /prediˈt͡sar/

predicar (present predicas, past predicis, future predicos, conditional predicus, imperative predicez)

1. (transitive) to predict, prophesy, foretell

• predicanta (“prophetic”)

• augurar

Borrowed from Latin praedicāre.

• Hyphenation: pre‧di‧car

predicar (first-person singular present predico, first-person singular preterite prediquei, past participle predicado)

1. to promote a concept or idea
2. (logic) to predicate (state or assert)

• “predicar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin praedicāre.

• IPA^(key): /pɾediˈkaɾ/ [pɾe.ð̞iˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧di‧car

predicar (first-person singular present predico, first-person singular preterite prediqué, past participle predicado)

1. (transitive) to preach

• “predicar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014