predator

English

Alternative forms

prædator (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹe.də.təɹ/

Noun

predator (plural predators)

Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
A sexual predator.

Related terms

Translations

animal or organism that hunts

Arabic: مُفْتَرِس‎ m (muftaris)
Armenian: գիշատիչ (hy) (gišatičʿ)
Azerbaijani: yırtıcı (az)
Bashkir: йыртҡыс (yïrtqïs)
Belarusian: драпе́жнік (drapjéžnik), хіжа́к m (xižák)
Bulgarian: хи́щник (bg) m (híštnik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 猛獸 (zh), 猛兽 (zh) (měngshòu), 天敵 (zh), 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
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)

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) (ertkıç)
Thai: นักล่า (nák-lâa), ผู้ล่า (pûu-lâa)
Ukrainian: хижа́к m (xyžák)
Uyghur: يىرتقۇچ‎ (yirtquch)
Westrobothnian: okräk n

someone who attacks

Chinese:
Mandarin: 掠奪者 (zh), 掠夺者 (zh) (lüèduózhě)
Galician: predador m
Greek: αρπακτικό (el) n (arpaktikó), άρπαγας (el) m (árpagas)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedator.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /prědaːtor/
Hyphenation: pre‧da‧tor

Noun

prèdātor m (Cyrillic spelling прѐда̄тор)

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

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