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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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /prɪˈɖeʈə(r)/

Noun

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predator (plural predators)

2. 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.

3. Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
4. A sexual predator.

Derived terms

• 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

• predation
• predatory
• prey

Translations

animal or organism that hunts

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

• 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, 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

• roofdier

Related terms

• predatie
• prederen

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedator.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prèdātor m anim (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