rapace
French
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editrapace (plural rapaces)
- rapacious, predatory
- Le vautour est très rapace. ― The vulture is very rapacious.
- (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]
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editNoun
editrapace m (plural rapaces)
- bird of prey
- raptor
- rapace nocturne ― nocturnal raptor
Further reading
edit- “rapace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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editrapace (plural rapaci)
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editrapace m (plural rapaci)
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- Hyphenation: ra‧pa‧ce
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editrapace m or f (plural rapaces)
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editRomanian
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editBorrowed from French rapace, from Latin rapax.
Adjective
editrapace m or f or n (masculine plural rapaci, feminine and neuter plural rapace)
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