predator

English

Alternative forms

• prædator (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin praedātor, from praedor (“loot, pillage”), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpre.də.tər/

Noun

Wikipedia predator (plural predators)

1. any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food
2. someone who attacks and plunders for gain

Related terms

• predation
• predatory

Translations

any animal or other organism

• Bulgarian: капан (bg) (kapan) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: dravec (cs) m
• Dutch: roofdier (nl) n
• Finnish: saalistaja (fi)
• French: prédateur (fr) m
• German: Raubtier (de) n
• Greek: αρπακτικό (el) (arpaktikó) n

• Italian: predatore (it) m
• Japanese: 天敵 (ja) (tenteki)
• Korean: 천적 (ko) (cheonjeok)
• Latin: praedator (la) m
• Polish: drapieżnik (pl) m
• Russian: хищник (ru) (xíščnik)
• Spanish: predador (es) m
• Swedish: rovdjur (sv) n, predator (sv) c

someone who attacks

• Greek: αρπακτικό (el) (arpaktikó) n, άρπαγας (el) (árpagas) m
• Italian: predatore (it) m, predone (it) m

• Russian: хищник (ru) (xíščnik) m

Anagrams

• parroted
• prorated
• protrade
• teardrop

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /prědaːtor/
• Hyphenation: pre‧da‧tor

Noun

prèdātor m (Cyrillic spelling прѐда̄тор)

1. predator

Declension

    declension of predator

	singular	plural
nominative	predator	predatori
genitive	predatora	predatora
dative	predatoru	predatorima
accusative	predatora	predatore
vocative	predatore	predatori
locative	predatoru	predatorima
instrumental	predatorom	predatorima