praedator

See also: prædator

Latin

Etymology

From praedor +‎ -tor.

Noun

praedātor m (genitive praedātōris); third declension

1. raider, plunderer, pillager, hunter
2. (biology) predator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praedātor	praedātōrēs
Genitive	praedātōris	praedātōrum
Dative	praedātōrī	praedātōribus
Accusative	praedātōrem	praedātōrēs
Ablative	praedātōre	praedātōribus
Vocative	praedātor	praedātōrēs

Derived terms

• praedātōrius

Descendants

• English: predator
• French: prédateur
• Italian: predatore
• Portuguese: predador
• Romanian: prădător
• Spanish: predador

References

• “praedator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praedator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praedator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 487