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From Latin praeda, from earlier praeheda, from prae- + Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to hold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.da/
• Rhymes: -ɛda
• Hyphenation: prè‧da

preda f (plural prede)

1. prey

• predare

• preda in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

• padre, perda

preda

1. inflection of predar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣдати (prědati), from Proto-Slavic *perdati, from *per- (“over, through”) +‎ *dati (“to give”).

• IPA^(key): /preˈda/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: pre‧da

a preda (third-person singular present predă, past participle predat, third-person subjunctive predea) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive) to hand over, to give in custody an object
2. (transitive) to hand in, turn in (submit)
3. (transitive) to turn in (e.g. to the police)
4. (reflexive) to surrender or to turn oneself in (to the police)
5. (ambitransitive) to teach in school

• predanie

• “preda”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• pedra

From Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpreda/, [ˈpɾɛː.ð̞ä]

preda f

1. (Logudorese) stone

• IPA^(key): /prêda/
• Hyphenation: pre‧da

prȅda (Cyrillic spelling пре̏да)

1. alternative form of prȅd

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

preda (Cyrillic spelling преда)

1. third-person singular present of predati

   Režimu je ponestalo trikova u očajanju da natjeraju Novu narodnu armiju da odustane ili da se preda.

   The régime is running out of tricks in its desperation to force the New People’s Army into either cooptation or capitulation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾeda/ [ˈpɾe.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -eda
• Syllabification: pre‧da

Probably borrowed from Latin praeda (the expected inherited form would be #prieda).

preda f (plural predas)

1. obsolete spelling of prea

preda

1. inflection of predar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “preda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• padre, pared