marauder

English

Etymology

Old French marault: a vagabond through French.

Noun

marauder (plural marauders)

1. Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder. (e.g. a band of marauders)
2. A band of outlaws who raid and pillage.
3. By extension anything which marauds.

Translations

Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掠奪者 (cmn), 掠夺者 (cmn) (lüèduózhě)

• Czech: nájezdník (cs) m
• Dutch: stroper (nl) m
• Finnish: rosvo, ryöstelijä
• French: maraudeur (fr) m

• German: Marodeur (de) m
• Italian: predone (it) m
• Japanese: 略奪者 (ja) (りゃくだつしゃ, ryakudatsusha)
• Neapolitan: mariuolo- very close to the original French word marault
• Portuguese: predador (pt) m, salteador (pt) m
• Russian: мародёр (ru) (marodjór) m

A band of outlaws who raids and pillages

• Hungarian: martalóc (hu)

• Portuguese: salteador (pt) m

By extension anything which marauds

• Finnish: rosvo (fi)

See also

• maraud

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French

Etymology

From maraude +‎ -er

Verb

marauder (intransitive)

1. To pilfer
2. To prowl

Conjugation

   Conjugation of marauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		marauder			avoir maraudé
gerund		en maraudant			en ayant maraudé
present participle		maraudant
past participle		maraudé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	maraude	maraudes	maraude	maraudons	maraudez	maraudent
	imperfect	maraudais	maraudais	maraudait	maraudions	maraudiez	maraudaient
	past historic1	maraudai	maraudas	marauda	maraudâmes	maraudâtes	maraudèrent
	future	marauderai	marauderas	maraudera	marauderons	marauderez	marauderont
	conditional	marauderais	marauderais	marauderait	marauderions	marauderiez	marauderaient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	maraude	maraudes	maraude	maraudions	maraudiez	maraudent
	imperfect1	maraudasse	maraudasses	maraudât	maraudassions	maraudassiez	maraudassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	maraude	—	maraudons	maraudez	—
1literary tenses