praeda

Latin

Alternative forms
  • praeheda
  • proeda

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

praeda f (genitive praedae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
  • praeda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
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