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pradă
prey /ˈpra.də/
noun#2723 most common
Also: plunder, loot, spoils, victim (in set phrases like 'a cădea pradă')
Example sentences
Leul mănâncă prada.
The lion eats its prey.
Antilopa a fost prada leului.
The antelope was the lion's prey.
Vulpea și-a prins prada în pădure.
The fox caught its prey in the forest.
Casa veche a rămas pradă flăcărilor.
The old house was left to the flames.
A căzut pradă unei manipulări bine puse la punct.
He fell victim to a well-orchestrated manipulation.
Orașul cucerit a fost lăsat pradă jafului și dezordinii timp de trei zile.
The conquered city was left to plunder and disorder for three days.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pradă | prăzi |
| Genitive | prăzi | prăzilor |
| Accusative | pradă | prăzi |
| Vocative | pradă | prăzilor |
Word family
a prădato plunder, to raid
prădătorpredator; predatory
prădarethe act of plundering
prădăciuneplunder, looting (literary)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "pradă" from Slavic, most likely Bulgarian or Old Church Slavonic "preda". It belongs to a set of Romanian nouns with the same Slavic -adă ending, alongside words like "ogradă" (yard) and "zăpadă" (snow). The word looks close to Latin "praeda" (source of English "prey" and French "proie"), but that resemblance is not the result of direct inheritance in Romanian, since regular sound change would have turned Latin "ae" into "e", not "a".
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