Translation
to preach; to hold forth
Word origin
From Latin praedicare, 'to proclaim publicly', built from prae- ('before, in front of') and dicare ('to declare'). The churchly sense is a later narrowing: for a Roman the verb meant announcing something in the forum, and only Christian Latin sent it into the pulpit.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- praedicare
- English cognates
- preach, predicate, proclaim
Examples
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The priest preached about peace and love.
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He preached in the village's old church.
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Do not preach to me about work, father.
sits in a register you will notice. It is a word of churches, congresses and long speeches, and it turns up in Esperanto out of proportion to its usefulness for ordering coffee, because so much early Esperanto prose was translated scripture. Zamenhof's Bible translation put in front of readers thousands of times, and the word has kept that weight since.
The family is regular. Prediko is the sermon itself, o the preacher, o the pulpit. All three are ordinary builds off predik- and none of them needs learning separately.
The figurative sense carries over cleanly from English, and the third example is it: you can at your family about tidiness, and you will sound exactly as tiresome as the English does. Where you want the neutral word for giving a talk, use parolado. always implies that the speaker believes they are improving you.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 40.