prédikál

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin praedicare (to proclaim, announce).[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpreːdikaːl]
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  • Hyphenation: pré‧di‧kál

Verb

prédikál

  1. (transitive, intransitive, religion) to preach (to give a sermon)
  2. (transitive, derogatory) to preach, lecture, scold (to give lengthy moral instructions expressing reproach)

Conjugation

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
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