antepraedicamentum

== Latin == === Etymology === From ante- (“before”) +‎ praedicō (“declare, predicate”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix), i.e. “that which is before predication”. === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [an.te.pre.di.kaˈmɛn.tum] === Noun === antepraedicāmentum n (genitive antepraedicāmentī); second declension (Ecclesiastical Latin, philosophy) A fundamental category of logic that is necessary to establish the possibility of any predication. ==== Usage notes ==== Applied specifically to the first three chapters of Aristotle’s Categories in scholastic theology, and traditionally enumerated as the distinctions between univocity and equivocality, complexity and simplicity, substance and accident, and genus and differentia. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Related terms ==== praedicāmentum postpraedicāmentum