English
predator
Predator comes from Latin praedātor ‘raider, plunderer, pillager, hunter’, and goes back to praeda ‘booty, spoils, prey’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraeda‘booty, spoils, prey’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraedor‘loot, pillage’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraedātor‘raider, plunderer, pillager, hunter’
- Englishearliest quotation 2018predator
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraeda‘booty, spoils, prey’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraedor‘loot, pillage’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraedātor‘raider, plunderer, pillager, hunter’
- Englishearliest quotation 2018predator
Earliest quotation: 2018, Food and Agriculture Organization of the, Food & Agriculture Org.: “Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- ‘to find’
yet, guess, prison, surprise, prize, comprehensive, comprise, apprentice, comprehend, comprehension, apprehension, apprehensive, reprehensible, apprehend, reprieve, beget, impregnable, impresario, prehensile, 33 more
through Latin praedor ‘loot, pillage’
Today it means
noun Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin praeda / predator