Meaning

verb be a signal for or a symptom of

verb indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

verb to state or express briefly

originBorrowed from Latin indicātus, perfect passive participle of indicō (“to point out, indicate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, to”) + dicō (“to declare, (originally) to point”). See also diction and index.

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