accipiter

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English

Etymology

From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɚ/
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Noun

accipiter (plural accipiters)

  1. (ornithology) Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
  2. (ornithology) Any hawk formerly classified in the genus Accipiter, such as Tachyspiza and Astur.
  3. (medicine, surgery) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

accipiter volāns (a hawk flying)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *akupetros, from Proto-Indo-European *HHḱu-péth₂r̥, from *HéHḱus (“swift, quick”) + *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”) (compare penna). The geminate -cc- is perhaps influenced by accipiō (“take, seize”). Compare with the similarly constructed Ancient Greek ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros, “swift-winged”), Proto-Slavic *àstrę̄bъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

accipiter m (genitive accipitris); third declension

  1. hawk, merlin
    Synonyms: acceptor, astur, falcō, nīsus
    • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.75–76:
      Terrētur minimō pennae strīdōre columbā,
      unguibus, accipiter, sauciā facta tuīs.
      The dove is terrified by the slightest rustle of a feather, having been wounded by your talons, hawk.
  2. a rapacious man

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative accipiter accipitrēs
genitive accipitris accipitrum
dative accipitrī accipitribus
accusative accipitrem accipitrēs
ablative accipitre accipitribus
vocative accipiter accipitrēs

Descendants

(mostly via Vulgar Latin acceptor)

References

  • “accipiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “accipiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • accipiter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “accipiter”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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