Other forms: predicates
A predicate is the part of a sentence that says what the subject does. Find the predicate.
Everything in a clause that is not the subject belongs to the predicate. In logic a predicate is what is asserted about something, which is the older sense.
1nounpredicateThe part of a sentence that says what the subject does.
“The subject was three words and the predicate was thirty.”
predicate is a part.
Latin praedicatum means a thing said of a subject, from praedicare, to proclaim.
Proto-Indo-European
*deyḱ-
Medieval Latin
praedicātum — thing said of a subject, predicate
Old French
predicat
Middle English
predicat
English, today
predicate
Built from
From Middle English predicat, from Old French predicat (French prédicat), from Medieval Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject, predicate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of praedicātus, the perfect passive participle praedicō (“to proclaim”), see -ate; see also Etymology 2 below. The adjective was derived from the noun by metanalysis, see -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA