Adjective: rapace
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | rapace |
| Singular f. | rapace |
| Plural m. | rapaces |
| Plural f. | rapaces |
Sample Sentences
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Le vautour est très rapace. (The vulture is very rapacious.)
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He returned pampered and proud, to tell his rapacious countrymen of the wealth and the simplicity of the Saxon nobles [1820, Walter Scott, chapter 21, in Alexandre Dumas, transl., Ivanhoé, translation of Ivanhoe:]
Adjectives inflected like rapace
emblématique,
antipianistique,
vanadique,
électrolysable,
sébacique,
aponévrotique,
fétichiste,
chromosomique,
archéographique,
fiduciaire,
judiciaire,
accusable,
monomyaire,
ontogénétique,
cinématique,
technétronique,
mélangeable,
neuropathique,
neurologique,
panchronique, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rapācem. See: Latin Adjectives '
rapāx'.
Verbs referencing "rapace"
Romanian Adjectives
rapace.
Translations