predator

English

Alternative forms

• prædator (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

predator (plural predators)

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

Hyponyms

• mesopredator

Derived terms

• ambush predator
• anti-predator
• apex predator
• predator bug
• predatorial
• predatorious
• predator satiation
• sexual predator
• sit-and-wait predator

 

Related terms

• predation
• predatory
• prey

Translations

animal or organism that hunts

• Afrikaans: roofdier
• 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 m
• Bulgarian: хи́щник (bg) m (híštnik)
• Catalan: predador m, depredador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掠食者 (lüèshízhě), 猛獸／猛兽 (zh) (měngshòu), 天敵／天敌 (zh) (tiāndí), 終極戰士／终极战士 (Zhōngjí zhànshì)

• Czech: dravec m
• Danish: rovdyr (da) n
• Dutch: roofdier (nl) n; (but with fish usually) roofvis (nl) m; predator (nl) m (ecology)
• Esperanto: kaperanto
• 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)
• 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)
• Korean: 천적 (ko) (cheonjeok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dirinde (ku), hov (ku)

• Latin: praedator m
• Macedonian: предатор m (predator)
• Maori: konihi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rovdyr (no) n

  Nynorsk: rovdyr n

• Persian: درنده (fa) (darande)
• 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)
• 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
• Tatar: ерткыч (tt) (yertkıç)
• Thai: นักล่า (nák-lâa), ผู้ล่า (pûu-lâa)
• Ukrainian: хижа́к m (xyžák)
• Uyghur: يىرتقۇچ (yirtquch)
• 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)
• Ukrainian: хижа́к m (xyžák)
• Zazaki: nengu eşten

Anagrams

• parroted, prorated, protrade, rope dart, teardrop

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpreːˈdaː.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pre‧da‧tor

Noun

predator m (plural predatoren)

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

• roofdier

Related terms

• predatie
• prederen

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