praeda

• praida (Republican)
• preda (codices, rare)
• proeda (medieval)

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈprae̯.da/, [ˈpräe̯d̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.da/, [ˈprɛːd̪ä]

praeda f (genitive praedae); first declension

1. plunder, booty, pillage, spoils of war, property taken in war

   Synonyms: spolium, manubia, rapīna

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.685-686:

     Vōs quoque, formīcae, subiectīs parcite grānīs:
     post messem praedae cōpia maior erit.

     And you too, ants, act sparingly once the seed has been sown;
     after harvest there will be a greater abundance of plunder.

2. prey, game taken in the hunt
3. gain, profit

First-declension noun.

• praedor

• “praeda” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

• “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, 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