Predictive is incorrectly written, and should be written as "predictive" being its meaning: Predictive: Word of Latin Etymology: prae: in front of, before dico Medici dicere dixi dictum: tell, announce and the suffix - ivo: tendency or capacity to. It is an adjective that means able to announce something that has not yet happened, to anticipate what will happen, forecast, which predicts, prophesies, that predicts, bode or has a presentiment of the future. This future might be something programmed into a text, something reasoned as the effect of a cause, something based on experience ( whenever it rains, it escampa ) or something said without foundation some ( this summer will be the end of the world )