marauder

English

Etymology

maraud +‎ -er.

Noun

marauder (plural marauders)

1. Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.

   a band of marauders

2. By extension anything which marauds.

Translations

one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder

• Catalan: basquejador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掠奪者／掠夺者 (zh) (lüèduózhě), 掠夺者 (zh) (lüèduózhě)

• Czech: nájezdník (cs) m
• Dutch: stroper (nl) m
• Finnish: rosvo (fi), ryöstelijä
• French: maraudeur (fr) m
• German: Marodeur (de) m
• Italian: predone (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 略奪者 (りゃくだつしゃ, ryakudatsusha)
• Latvian: marodieris m
• Neapolitan: mariuolo
• Portuguese: predador (pt) m, salteador m
• Russian: мародёр (ru) m (marodjór)
• Spanish: merodeador m
• Swedish: marodör (sv) c
• Welsh: herwr m, herwyr m pl

band of outlaws who raid and pillage

• Dutch: roversbende (nl) m or f
• Hungarian: martalóc
• Maori: marau
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• Portuguese: salteador m
• Welsh: herwr m, herwyr m pl

by extension anything which marauds

• Finnish: rosvo (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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French

Etymology

From maraud +‎ -er, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”).

Verb

marauder

1. (intransitive) to pilfer
2. (intransitive) to prowl

Conjugation

Conjugation of marauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	marauder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maraudant /ma.ʁo.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maraudé /ma.ʁo.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudes /ma.ʁod/	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudons /ma.ʁo.dɔ̃/	maraudez /ma.ʁo.de/	maraudent /ma.ʁod/
	imperfect	maraudais /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudais /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudait /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudions /ma.ʁo.djɔ̃/	maraudiez /ma.ʁo.dje/	maraudaient /ma.ʁo.dɛ/
	past historic2	maraudai /ma.ʁo.de/	maraudas /ma.ʁo.da/	marauda /ma.ʁo.da/	maraudâmes /ma.ʁo.dam/	maraudâtes /ma.ʁo.dat/	maraudèrent /ma.ʁo.dɛʁ/
	future	marauderai /ma.ʁo.dʁe/	marauderas /ma.ʁo.dʁa/	maraudera /ma.ʁo.dʁa/	marauderons /ma.ʁo.dʁɔ̃/	marauderez /ma.ʁo.dʁe/	marauderont /ma.ʁo.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	marauderais /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderais /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderait /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderions /ma.ʁo.də.ʁjɔ̃/	marauderiez /ma.ʁo.də.ʁje/	marauderaient /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudes /ma.ʁod/	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudions /ma.ʁo.djɔ̃/	maraudiez /ma.ʁo.dje/	maraudent /ma.ʁod/
	imperfect2	maraudasse /ma.ʁo.das/	maraudasses /ma.ʁo.das/	maraudât /ma.ʁo.da/	maraudassions /ma.ʁo.da.sjɔ̃/	maraudassiez /ma.ʁo.da.sje/	maraudassent /ma.ʁo.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maraude /ma.ʁod/	—	maraudons /ma.ʁo.dɔ̃/	maraudez /ma.ʁo.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “marauder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Descendants

• → English: marauder