praeda
Appearance
Latin
Alternative forms
- praida (Republican)
- preda (codices, Medieval Latin, rare)
- proeda (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
Likely from the o-grade Proto-Italic *praiɣodā, from (with the prefix *prai-) Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-, whence also the second element in prehendō and probably also hedera.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈprae̯.da/, [ˈpräe̯d̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.da/, [ˈprɛːd̪ä]
Noun
praeda f (genitive praedae); first declension
- plunder, booty, pillage, spoils of war, property taken in war
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.527–528:
- “Nōn nōs aut ferrō Libycōs populāre Penātīs
vēnimus, aut raptās ad lītora vertere praedās.”- “We come neither to pillage by sword the household gods of Libya, nor to drive captured plunder to the shores.”
(The plunder “driven” or “turned” implies taking herds of animals; it might also mean taking humans into slavery.)
- “We come neither to pillage by sword the household gods of Libya, nor to drive captured plunder to the shores.”
- “Nōn nōs aut ferrō Libycōs populāre Penātīs
- prey, game taken in the hunt
- gain, profit
Declension
First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | praeda | praedae |
genitive | praedae | praedārum |
dative | praedae | praedīs |
accusative | praedam | praedās |
ablative | praedā | praedīs |
vocative | praeda | praedae |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “praeda” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 487
Further reading
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- praeda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to carry off booty: ferre atque agere praedam
- 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
Categories:
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