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The word "predicament" originated in the 15th century from the Middle French prédicament. This word in turn derived from the Late Latin praedicamentum, which referred to one of the ten categories of being postulated by Aristotle in his philosophical work "Categories". The Latin term was formed from praedicare "to declare, proclaim", ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root deik- "to show".
In Aristotle's system, the predicaments were logical classifications used to describe things. They included substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, and passion. Over time, the meaning of "predicament" shifted away from its original philosophical context and came to refer to a difficult or unfavorable situation.
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