The corpus record — Latin

praedicatio

praedicatio · f

A public proclaiming

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Where it lives

Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 19 · 65.4/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 9 · 8.02/10k
Adversus Marcionem 56 · 6.76/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 5 · 6.02/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 1 · 3.21/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
De Monogamia 2 · 2.86/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 6 · 2.65/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 18 · 2.55/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

praedĭcātĭo — Lewis & Short

praedĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I A public proclaiming, a proclamation, publication (class.) of the praeco, luctuosa et acerba praedicatio, Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 48: mandata praedicatio, App. M. 6, p. 176, 10: praedicatio societatis, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 61, § 140.— Hence, an assertion: decem praedicationes, Mart. Cap. 4, § 383.—

II A praising, praise, commendation (class.): praedicatio tua, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 22; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, § 41: grata, Plin. Ep. 9, 9, 3; Plin. 20, 10, 42, § 109; Liv. 4, 49, 10: vana, Flor. 4, 2, 63; cf. Plin. 35, 3, 5, § 15.—

III A prediction, prophecy, soothsaying, Lact. 4, 21, 2; Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 36, 3.—

IV (Eccl. Lat.) Preaching: stultitia praedicationis, Vulg. 1 Cor. 1, 21; id. Tit. 1, 3.

In the wild

praedicatione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.3
praedicationis Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 23
praedicationis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.20
praedicationibus Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.16
praedicatione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.8.p1
praedicationum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.19

6 of 176 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.