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Predator

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means an animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals
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Stage 1 of 2
praedator
Latin · ancient
"a plunderer"
a plunderer, from praeda (booty, prey)
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predator
English · 1600s
"an animal that hunts other animals for food"
settled as the biological word for an animal that hunts others for food
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