praedicamentum

From praedicō (“to declare, proclaim, predicate”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix). Calque of Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “predication, category”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prae̯.dɪ.kaːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pre.d̪i.kaˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

praedicāmentum n (genitive praedicāmentī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) that which is predicated, a predicament, category
2. (Medieval Latin) a preaching, discourse

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• antepraedicāmentum
• postpraedicāmentum

• → Catalan: predicament (learned)
• → Old French: predicament (learned)
  • → Middle English: predicament
    • English: predicament
  • French: prédicament
    • → Romanian: predicament
• → Galician: predicamento (learned)
• → Italian: predicamento (learned)
• → Occitan: predicament (learned)
• → Portuguese: predicamento (learned)
• → Spanish: predicamento (learned)

• “praedicamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "praedicamentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• praedicamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.