praedator

See also: prædator

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *gʰodéh

Proto-Italic *hodā

Proto-Italic *praiɣodā

Latin praeda

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin praedor

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin praedātor

From praedor + -tor.

Noun

praedātor m (genitive praedātōris, feminine praedātrīx); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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