predictive
/pɹɪˈdɪktɪv/prih-DIK-tiv
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/pɹɪˈdɪktɪv/prih-DIK-tiv
Meaningtending to predict
Common meaning: able to forecast
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- prebefore
- dictto say, speakLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 570 · scan
- iveadjective ending: tending to
‘before’ + ‘to say, speak’ → predictive
Journey through time
- Latindīcō, dīxī, dictum‘to say, speak’
- Englishpredict‘to say what will happen before it does’
- Englishformed in English from predictpredictive‘able to forecast’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from predict + -ive.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), PREDICT, p.463 · scan
Roots
- dīcō, dīxī, dictum Latin “to say, speak”
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