Predator - Wiktionary

English

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Alternative forms

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• prædator (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Indic) IPA(key): /prɪˈɖeʈə(r)/

Noun

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English Wikipedia has an article on:predatorWikipedia

predator (plural predators)

1. Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food. Hyponym: mesopredator
   • 2018 October 15, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for practitioners: Volume 2, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 73:Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.
   • 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:So if you're the only thing worth eating in the middle of the ocean, the predator that grabs you will probably have gotten there by a Levy walk.
2. Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
3. A sexual predator.

Derived terms

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• ambush predator
• anti-predator
• apex predator
• cyberpredator
• hyperpredator
• interpredator
• kleptopredator
• macropredator
• micropredator
• nonpredator
• predator bug
• predatorial
• predatorious
• predatorism
• predatorlike
• predator satiation
• Predditor
• predophile
• sexual predator
• sit-and-wait predator
• superpredator

Related terms

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• predation
• predatory
• prey

Translations

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Afrikaans: roofdier Albanian: grabitqar (sq) m Arabic: مُفْتَرِس m (muftaris), ضَارٍ m (ḍārin) Armenian: գիշատիչ (hy) (gišatičʻ) Azerbaijani: yırtıcı (az) Bashkir: йыртҡыс (yırtqıs) Belarusian: драпе́жнік (drapjéžnik), хіжа́к m (xižák) Breton: preizher (br) m Bulgarian: хи́щник (bg) m (híštnik) Catalan: predador m, depredador m Chinese: Mandarin: 掠食者 (lüèshízhě), 天敵 / 天敌 (zh) (tiāndí) Czech: dravec m Danish: rovdyr (da) n Dutch: roofdier (nl) n; (but with fish usually) roofvis (nl) m; predator (nl) m (ecology) Esperanto: kaperanto Estonian: kiskja Faroese: ránsdjór n, ránsdýr n Finnish: saalistaja (fi), peto (fi) French: prédateur (fr) m Galician: predador m Georgian: მტაცებელი (ka) (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) Hindi: दरिंदा (hi) m (darindā) Hungarian: ragadozó (hu) Icelandic: rándýr (is) n Indonesian: pemangsa (id) Irish: creachadóir m Italian: predatore (it) m Japanese: 天敵 (ja) (てんてき, tenteki) Kazakh: жыртқыш (jyrtqyş) Korean: 천적(天敵) (ko) (cheonjeok) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: dirinde (ku), hov (ku) Kyrgyz: жырткыч (ky) (jırtkıc) Latin: praedator m Latvian: plēsonis m Lithuanian: plėšrūnas (lt) m Macedonian: предатор m (predator), грабливец m (grablivec) Malay: pemangsa (ms) Maori: kaikonihi Mongolian: Cyrillic: махчин амьтан (maxčin amʹtan) Norwegian: Bokmål: rovdyr (no) n Nynorsk: rovdyr n Ottoman Turkish: یرتیجی (yırtıcı) Pashto: ښکارکوونکی m (x̌kārkawūnkay) Persian: Classical Persian: دَرَنْدَه (daranda) Dari: دَرِنْدَه (darinda) Iranian Persian: دَرَنْدِه (darande) Polish: drapieżnik (pl) m Portuguese: predador (pt) m Romanian: prădător (ro) m Russian: хи́щник (ru) m (xíščnik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: прѐда̄тор m Roman: prèdātor (sh) m Slovak: dravec (sk) m Slovene: plenilec m, ujeda (sl) f (bird) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: rubjažne zwěrje n, tergate zwěrje n Southern Altai: барынтычы (barïntïčï) Spanish: predador (es) m, depredador (es) m Swedish: rovdjur (sv) n, predator (sv) c Tajik: дарранда (darranda) Tatar: ерткыч (tt) (yırtqıç) Thai: นักล่า (nák-lâa), ผู้ล่า (pûu-lâa) Turkish: yırtıcı (tr) Turkmen: ýyrtyjy Ukrainian: хижа́к m (xyžák) Urdu: دَرِنْدَہ m (darinda) Uyghur: يىرتقۇچ (yirtquch) Uzbek: yirtqich (uz), darranda (uz) Vietnamese: động vật ăn thịt Welsh: rheibiwr m, ysglyfaethwr m Zazaki: dırıter, dırıtoğ

someone who attacks

Catalan: depredador m Chinese: Mandarin: 掠奪者 / 掠夺者 (zh) (lüèduózhě) Galician: predador m Greek: αρπακτικό (el) n (arpaktikó), άρπαγας (el) m (árpagas) Hungarian: ragadozó (hu) Italian: predatore (it) m, predone (it) m Maori: konihi Portuguese: predador (pt) m Russian: хи́щник (ru) m (xíščnik) Spanish: depredador (es) m Ukrainian: хижа́к m (xyžák) Zazaki: nengu eşten

Anagrams

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• parroted, prorated, protrade, rope dart, teardrop

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin praedātor.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˌpreːˈdaː.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pre‧da‧tor

Noun

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predator m (plural predatoren, no diminutive)

1. (biology, chiefly zoology) A predator, organism (usually animal) that kills other non-plant organisms for food.
2. A human predator (criminal, in particular a sexual predator).

Synonyms

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• roofdier

Related terms

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• predatie
• prederen

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin praedator.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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prèdātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling прѐда̄тор)

1. predator

Declension

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singular	plural
nominative	predator	predatori
genitive	predatora	predatora
dative	predatoru	predatorima
accusative	predatora	predatore
vocative	predatore	predatori
locative	predatoru	predatorima
instrumental	predatorom	predatorima