Dictionary formpraedictus, praedicta, praedictum
Translation
aforesaid, aforementioned; foretold
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Examples
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The aforesaid man came into the city.
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He gave him the aforesaid country house.
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He said nothing about the aforesaid business.
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These things were written in the aforementioned letter.
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The aforesaid brothers were in the church.
Praedictus, praedicta, praedictum is the perfect participle of praedico, praedicere, "say beforehand", working as an ordinary adjective. Two senses pull apart. In prophecy it is "foretold". In charters, deeds and chronicles it is the workhorse "aforesaid", pointing back to a person, place or sum already named, and that is what almost every instance in this corpus is doing.
The manuscripts write predictus without the diphthong, the routine medieval flattening of ae. The real trap is the neighbouring verb praedico, praedicare, first conjugation, "to preach". Praedicatus is "preached", praedictus is "foretold", and one vowel in the stem is all that separates the Dominicans' Ordo Praedicatorum from a prophecy.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 7: praedictus, tamquam, velut and 7 more words.