rapace

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rapax, rapacem.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Adjective

rapace (masculine and feminine, plural rapaces)

  1. predatory
    Le vautour est très rapace.
  2. rapacious, greedy
    Il s’en retourna repu et orgueilleux, pour raconter à ses rapaces compatriotes la richesse et la simplicité de nos nobles Saxons. (Walter Scott, Ivanhoé, Traduction de l’anglais par Alexandre Dumas, 1820)

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Noun

rapace m. (plural rapaces)

  1. bird of prey
  2. raptor
    Un rapace nocturne.

[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin rapax, rapacem.

[edit] Adjective

rapace m. and f. (m and f plural rapaci)

  1. predatory
  2. rapacious, greedy

[edit] Noun

rapace m. (plural rapaci)

  1. bird of prey
  2. raptor

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Anagrams

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