... Advanced Learner's) nor Apple's Dictionary.app nor dict.leo.org know your meaning. I think the Latin roots are quite different for "predator" and "predate": the first one stems from "praeda" (prey, spools of war) while the other one stems from the verb "dare" (to give). Sorry, had nine years of Latin at school ;-) Regards! Sebastian http://www.dictionary.com has ...

...(Oxford Advanced Learner's) nor Apple's Dictionary.app nor dict.leo.org know your meaning. I think the Latin roots are quite different for "predator" and "predate": the first one stems from "praeda" (prey, spools of war) while the other one stems from the verb "dare" (to give). Sorry, had nine years of Latin at school ;-) Having once invested in a paper copy of the full OED, ...

...got from? Neither my old school dictionary (Oxford Advanced Learner's) nor Apple's Dictionary.app nor dict.leo.org know your meaning. I think the Latin roots are quite different for "predator" and "predate": the first one stems from "praeda" (prey, spools of war) while the other one stems from the verb "dare" (to give). Sorry, had nine years of Latin at school ;-) Regards! Sebastian