Noun: proie
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | proie |
| Plural f | proies |
Sample Sentences
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[…]toute la rangée de sheds serait devenue une proie des flammes. (...the whole row of sheds would be consumed by flames.) [1908, H. A. van Ysselsteyn, Le port de Rotterdam, page 287:]
Nouns inflected like proie
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French proie, preie, from Latin praeda (probably via a Late Latin variant proeda or *prēda; the expected outcome of praeda would be *priée). See: Latin Nouns '
praeda'.
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