predator

English

Alternative forms

• prædator (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹe.də.təɹ/

Noun

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.
3. A sexual predator.

Related terms

• predation
• predatory
• prey

Translations

animal or organism that hunts

• Arabic: مُفْتَرِس m (muftaris)
• Armenian: գիշատիչ (hy) (gišatičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: yırtıcı (az)
• Bashkir: йыртҡыс (yırtqıs)
• Belarusian: драпе́жнік (drapjéžnik), хіжа́к m (xižák)
• Bulgarian: хи́щник (bg) m (híštnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猛獸／猛兽 (zh) (měngshòu), 猛兽 (zh) (měngshòu), 天敵／天敌 (zh) (tiāndí), 天敌 (zh) (tiāndí)

• Czech: dravec m
• Danish: rovdyr (da) n
• Dutch: roofdier (nl) n
• Esperanto: kaperanto
• Finnish: saalistaja (fi), peto (fi)
• French: prédateur (fr) m
• Galician: predador m
• Georgian: მტაცებელი (mṭacebeli)
• German: Raubtier (de) n; (but with fish usually) Raubfisch (de) m, Beutegreifer (de) m (biology), Prädator (de) m (ecology)
• Greek: αρπακτικό (el) n (arpaktikó)
• Hebrew: טוֹרֵף (he) m (toréf)
• Icelandic: rándýr (is) n
• Indonesian: pemangsa (id)
• Italian: predatore (it) m
• Japanese: 天敵 (てんてき, tenteki)
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• Korean: 천적 (ko) (cheonjeok)
• Latin: praedator m
• Macedonian: предатор m (predator)
• Maori: konihi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rovdyr (no) n

  Nynorsk: rovdyr n

• Polish: drapieżnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: predador (pt) m
• Russian: хи́щник (ru) m (xíščnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: предатор m

  Roman: predator (sh) m

• Slovak: dravec (sk) m
• Slovene: plenilec m, ujeda (sl) f (bird)
• Southern Altai: барынтычы (barıntıçı)
• Spanish: predador (es) m, depredador (es) m
• Swedish: rovdjur (sv) n, predator (sv) c
• Tatar: ерткыч (tt) (yertkıç)
• Thai: นักล่า (nák-lâa), ผู้ล่า (pûu-lâa)
• Ukrainian: хижа́к m (xyžák)
• Uyghur: يىرتقۇچ (yirtquch)
• Westrobothnian:

someone who attacks

• Chinese:

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

• Galician: predador m
• Greek: αρπακτικό (el) n (arpaktikó), άρπαγας (el) m (árpagas)
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• Italian: predatore (it) m, predone (it) m
• Maori: konihi
• Portuguese: predador (pt) m
• Russian: хи́щник (ru) m (xíščnik)

Anagrams

• parroted, prorated, protrade, rope dart, teardrop

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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