accipiter
See also: Accipiter
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
accipiter (plural accipiters)
- (ornithology) Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
- (medicine, surgery) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
hawk of the genus Accipiter
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bandage over the nose
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *akupetros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱu-péth₂r̥, from *h₂eḱus (“sharp”) + *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”) (compare acus, 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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈki.pi.ter/, [äkˈkɪpɪt̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.pi.ter/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːpit̪er]
Noun edit
accipiter m (genitive accipitris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | accipiter | accipitrēs |
Genitive | accipitris | accipitrum |
Dative | accipitrī | accipitribus |
Accusative | accipitrem | accipitrēs |
Ablative | accipitre | accipitribus |
Vocative | accipiter | accipitrēs |
Descendants edit
(mostly via Vulgar Latin acceptor)
- Aragonese: astor, azor
- → Basque: aztore
- → Byzantine Greek: ξιφτέρι (xiftéri), ξεφτέρι (xeftéri), ἐξιφτέριν (exiphtérin)
- Catalan: astor
- Corsican: altore
- → English: accipiter
- Old French: hostur, ostur, ostor, ostoir
- French: autour
- Italian: astore
- Lombard: astor
- Occitan: astor
- Old Galician-Portuguese: açor
- Sardinian: istore
- Old Spanish: adtor
- Spanish: azor
References edit
- “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