Latin

Noun

praeda f ‎(genitive praedae); first declension

1. plunder, spoils of war, booty
2. prey, game taken in the hunt
3. gain, profit

Inflection

First declension.

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Descendants

References

• praeda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praeda in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PRAEDA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “praeda”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to carry off booty: ferre atque agere praedam
    
• praeda in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praeda in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin