Preach

Morpheme

Preach

Type

free base

Denotation

proclaim publicly, announce, give a sermon

Etymology

(1) Middle English prechen; Old English predician and (2) Middle English preachen; Old French preechier; Late Latin praedicāre; Latin prae + dicāre

Evidence

counterpreach, mispreach, nonpreaching, outpreach, overpreach, preach, preachable, preached, preachee, preacher, preaches, preachier, preachiest, preachify, preaching, preachingly, preachment, preachy, unpreach, unpreached

Notes

preach and predicate are doublets

See Also

prae-, Dice