marauder

English

Etymology

From maraud +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈɹɔːdə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

marauder (plural marauders)

1. Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.

   a band of marauders

2. Any person who or thing which marauds.

Translations

one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder

• Belarusian: марадзёр m (maradzjór), марадзёрка f (maradzjórka)
• Bulgarian: мароде́р (bg) m (marodér), мароде́рка f (marodérka)
• Catalan: basquejador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掠奪者／掠夺者 (zh) (lüèduózhě)

• Czech: nájezdník (cs) m
• Dutch: vagebond (nl) m
• Finnish: rosvo (fi), ryöstelijä
• French: maraudeur (fr) m, maraudeuse (fr) f
• German: Marodeur (de) m, Marodeurin (de) f
• Irish: creachadóir m
• Italian: predone (it) m
• Japanese: 略奪者 (りゃくだつしゃ, ryakudatsusha)
• Korean: 약탈자(掠奪者) (ko) (yaktalja), 략탈자(掠奪者) (ryaktalja) (North Korea)
• Latvian: marodieris (lv) m
• Macedonian: ма́родер m (mároder), пља́чкаш m (pljáčkaš)
• Neapolitan: mariuolo
• Polish: maruder (pl) m, maruderka f
• Portuguese: predador (pt) m, salteador m
• Russian: мародёр (ru) m (marodjór), мародёрка (ru) f (marodjórka)
• Spanish: merodeador (es) m
• Swedish: marodör (sv) c
• Ukrainian: мароде́р m (marodér), мароде́рка f (marodérka)
• Welsh: herwr m, herwyr m pl

one who or that which marauds

• Finnish: rosvo (fi)

French

Etymology

From maraud +‎ -er, from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

marauder

1. (intransitive) to pilfer
2. (intransitive) to prowl

Conjugation

Conjugation of marauder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	marauder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maraudant /ma.ʁo.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maraudé /ma.ʁo.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudes /ma.ʁod/	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudons /ma.ʁo.dɔ̃/	maraudez /ma.ʁo.de/	maraudent /ma.ʁod/
	imperfect	maraudais /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudais /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudait /ma.ʁo.dɛ/	maraudions /ma.ʁo.djɔ̃/	maraudiez /ma.ʁo.dje/	maraudaient /ma.ʁo.dɛ/
	past historic2	maraudai /ma.ʁo.de/	maraudas /ma.ʁo.da/	marauda /ma.ʁo.da/	maraudâmes /ma.ʁo.dam/	maraudâtes /ma.ʁo.dat/	maraudèrent /ma.ʁo.dɛʁ/
	future	marauderai /ma.ʁo.dʁe/	marauderas /ma.ʁo.dʁa/	maraudera /ma.ʁo.dʁa/	marauderons /ma.ʁo.dʁɔ̃/	marauderez /ma.ʁo.dʁe/	marauderont /ma.ʁo.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	marauderais /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderais /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderait /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/	marauderions /ma.ʁo.də.ʁjɔ̃/	marauderiez /ma.ʁo.də.ʁje/	marauderaient /ma.ʁo.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudes /ma.ʁod/	maraude /ma.ʁod/	maraudions /ma.ʁo.djɔ̃/	maraudiez /ma.ʁo.dje/	maraudent /ma.ʁod/
	imperfect2	maraudasse /ma.ʁo.das/	maraudasses /ma.ʁo.das/	maraudât /ma.ʁo.da/	maraudassions /ma.ʁo.da.sjɔ̃/	maraudassiez /ma.ʁo.da.sje/	maraudassent /ma.ʁo.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maraude /ma.ʁod/	—	maraudons /ma.ʁo.dɔ̃/	maraudez /ma.ʁo.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → English: maraud
  • ⇒ English: marauder
• → German: marodieren
• → Spanish: merode
  • ⇒ Spanish: merodeador

Further reading

• “marauder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “marauder” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.