rapace

Borrowed from Latin rapācem.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.pas/

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• Rhymes: -as

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]

• rapacité

rapace m (plural rapaces)

1. bird of prey
2. raptor

   rapace nocturne ― nocturnal raptor

• “rapace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin rapacem.

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

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rapace m or f (plural rapaci)

1. predatory
2. rapacious, greedy

• rapacemente

• rapacità

rapace m (plural rapaci)

1. bird of prey
2. raptor

• uccello rapace

• rapire

• eparca, pacare

From Latin rapacem.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -asi, (Portugal) -asɨ
• Hyphenation: ra‧pa‧ce

rapace m or f (plural rapaces)

1. predatory
2. rapacious, greedy

• “rapace”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “rapace”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from French rapace, from Latin rapax.

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

1. predatory

• rapacitate