rapace

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rapācem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁa.pas/
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  • Rhymes: -as

Adjective

rapace (plural rapaces)

  1. rapacious, predatory
    Le vautour est très rapace.The vulture is very rapacious.
  2. (figuratively) rapacious, greedy
    • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 21, in Alexandre Dumas, transl., Ivanhoé, translation of Ivanhoe:
      Il s’en retourna repu et orgueilleux, pour raconter à ses rapaces compatriotes la richesse et la simplicité de nos nobles Saxons.
      [original: He returned pampered and proud, to tell his rapacious countrymen of the wealth and the simplicity of the Saxon nobles]

Noun

rapace m (plural rapaces)

  1. bird of prey
  2. raptor
    rapace nocturnenocturnal raptor

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rapacem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raˈpa.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -atʃe
  • Hyphenation: ra‧pà‧ce
  • (file)

Adjective

rapace (plural rapaci)

  1. predatory
  2. rapacious, greedy

Derived terms

Noun

rapace m (plural rapaci)

  1. bird of prey
  2. raptor

Synonyms

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rapace, from Latin rapax.

Adjective

rapace m or f or n (masculine plural rapaci, feminine and neuter plural rapace)

  1. predatory

Declension

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