preda

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See also: pređa, préda, předa, předá, and Preda

Italian

Etymology

From Latin praeda, from earlier praeheda, from prae- + Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (to hold).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈprɛ.da/
  • Rhymes: -ɛda
  • Hyphenation: prè‧da

Noun

preda f (plural prede)

  1. prey

Related terms

Further reading

  • preda in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Anagrams

Portuguese

Verb

preda

  1. inflection of predar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣдати (prědati), from Proto-Slavic *perdati, from *per- (over, through) +‎ *dati (to give).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /preˈda/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: pre‧da

Verb

a preda (third-person singular present predă, past participle predat) 1st conj.

  1. (transitive) to hand over, to give in custody an object
  2. (reflexive) to surrender
  3. (transitive) to teach a subject in school

Conjugation

References

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, stone, rock).

Pronunciation

Noun

preda f

  1. (Logudorese) stone

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prêda/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧da

Preposition

prȅda (Cyrillic spelling пре̏да)

  1. Alternative form of prȅd

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

preda (Cyrillic spelling преда)

  1. third-person singular present of predati
    Režimu je ponestalo trikova u očajanju da natjeraju Novu narodnu armiju da odustane ili da se preda.
    The régime is running out of tricks in its desperation to force the New People’s Army into either cooptation or capitulation.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾeda/
  • Rhymes: -eda
  • Syllabification: pre‧da

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from Latin praeda (the expected inherited form would be #prieda).

Noun

preda f (plural predas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of prea

Etymology 2

Verb

preda

  1. inflection of predar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Anagrams