“Predicament” comes from medieval and late Latin roots meaning something like “that which is said of something” or “something predicated,” and only later took on the sense of a difficult situation.etymonline+1
In detail, English “predicament” is from Middle English, borrowed via Old French from Late Latin praedicāmentum. That Latin word meant “something predicated, a category,” and in medieval Aristotelian logic it referred to a category or class into which things could be sorted—essentially a logical classification. Praedicāmentum itself is formed from the verb praedicare “to proclaim, declare, assert,” built on prae- “before” plus a verb related to dicare/dicere “to say, declare.” From this technical sense “category” arose the broader idea of “state or condition,” and by the late 16th century English “predicament” developed its now‑primary meaning of an unpleasant, difficult, or trying situation.wiktionary+3