praeda

Latin

Alternative forms

• praeheda
• proeda

Etymology

From earlier praeheda, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (whence prehendō, hedera).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈprae̯.da/, [ˈpräe̯d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.da/, [ˈprɛːd̪ä]

Noun

praeda f (genitive praedae); first declension

1. plunder, spoils of war, booty
2. prey, game taken in the hunt
3. gain, profit

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praeda	praedae
Genitive	praedae	praedārum
Dative	praedae	praedīs
Accusative	praedam	praedās
Ablative	praedā	praedīs
Vocative	praeda	praedae

Derived terms

• praedor

Descendants

• → Albanian: pre
• Aromanian: pradã
• Dutch: prooi (via Old French)
• English: prey (via Anglo-Norman)
• French: proie
• Friulian: prede

• Galician: prea
• Italian: preda
• Occitan: preda
• Portuguese: preia
• Romanian: pradă
• Spanish: prea, preda

References

• “praeda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praeda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praeda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• praeda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to carry off booty: ferre atque agere praedam
    
• “praeda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “praeda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin