prêcher
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to preach
- (transitive) to advocate moral values, political ideas
- (transitive) to lecture someone about what is good or bad
Etymology
Inherited from Old French prëechier inherited from Latin praedicāre.
Origin
Latin
praedicāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- outpreach English
- preach English
- preachable English
- preachee English
- preacher English
- preachest English
- preacheth English
- preachify English
- preachman English
- preachment English
- preacht English
- preachy English
- unpreach English
- praedicāre Latin
- praedicō Latin
- predicar Spanish, Castilian
- *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- predicar Portuguese
- prechen Middle English
- prechier Old French
- prëechier Old French
- predicar Catalan, Valencian
- predicar Galician
- predigōn Old High German
- predikar Ido
- preaçh Manx
- prêchi Norman
- prègiér Franco-Provençal