condor

See also: Condor and cóndor

English

Etymology

From Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒndɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

condor (plural condors or condor)

1. Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.
2. A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.
3. An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.
4. (golf) The completion of a hole four strokes under par (a quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross).
5. (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at four strike prices, giving limited profit and limited risk.

Coordinate terms

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• birdie
• eagle
• albatross

Derived terms

• Andean condor
• California condor
• Condor Legion
• iron condor

Translations

California condor

• Arabic: كُنْدُور m (kundūr)
• Belarusian: ко́ндар m (kóndar)
• Bulgarian: ко́ндор m (kóndor)
• Catalan: còndor (ca) m
• Central Nahuatl: tzopilocuauhtli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禿鷹／秃鹰 (zh) (tūyīng)

• Czech: kondor m
• Danish: kondor c
• Esperanto: kondoro
• Finnish: kondori (fi)
• French: condor (fr) m
• Georgian: კონდორი (ḳondori)
• German: Kondor (de) m
• Hungarian: kondorkeselyű (hu), kondor (hu)
• Irish: condar m
• Italian: condor (it) m, condor della California m
• Japanese: コンドル (ja) (kondoru)
• Kashaya: ʔihsul
• Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu)
• Macedonian: кондор m (kondor)
• Navajo: jeeshóóʼ
• Portuguese: condor (pt) m
• Quechua: kuntur
• Romanian: condor (ro) m, condor californian m
• Russian: ко́ндор (ru) m (kóndor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кондор m

  Roman: kondor (sh) m

• Spanish: cóndor (es) m
• Swedish: kondor (sv) c
• Tagalog: kondor
• Telugu: డేగ (te) (ḍēga)
• Ukrainian: ко́ндор (uk) m (kóndor)
• Welsh: condor m

Andean condor

• Bulgarian: ко́ндор m (kóndor)
• Catalan: còndor (ca) m
• Czech: kondor m
• Danish: kondor
• Finnish: kondori (fi)
• Georgian: კონდორი (ḳondori)
• German: Kondor (de) m
• Hungarian: kondorkeselyű (hu), kondor (hu)
• Icelandic: kondór m
• Irish: condar m
• Italian: condor (it) m, condor delle Ande m
• Japanese: コンドル (ja) (kondoru)
• Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu)
• Navajo: shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ jeeshóóʼ
• Portuguese: condor (pt) m
• Quechua: kuntur
• Romanian: condor (ro) m, condor andin m
• Russian: ко́ндор (ru) m (kóndor)
• Spanish: cóndor (es) m
• Tagalog: kondor
• Welsh: condor m

Anagrams

• Cordon, con rod, conrod, cordon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.dɔr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: con‧dor

Noun

condor m (plural condors)

1. condor, Andean condor, Vultur gryphus

   Synonym: Andescondor

2. (rare) California condor, Gymnogyps californianus

   Synonym: Californische condor

Derived terms

• Andescondor
• Californische condor

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɔʁ/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Noun

condor m (plural condors)

1. condor (American species of vultures)

Further reading

• “condor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cóndor.

Noun

condor m (invariable)

1. condor (bird)

Derived terms

• condor delle Ande
• condor della California

Further reading

• condor in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• condro, condro-

Latin

Verb

condor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of condō

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈdoʁ/ [kõˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈdoʁ/ [kõˈdoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kõˈdoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kõˈdoʁ/ [kõˈdoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈdoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõˈdoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõˈdoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõˈdo.ɾi/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: con‧dor

Noun

condor m (plural condores)

1. condor (American species of vultures)
2. condor (golden coin of Ecuador)
3. (historical) condor (golden coin of Chile and Colombia)
4. (Brazil, figurative, of a person) standout

Derived terms

• condor-da-califórnia
• condor-dos-andes
• condoreiro
• condorismo

 

References

• “condor” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “condor” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French condor, Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈdor/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkondor/

Noun

condor m (plural condori)

1. condor (American species of vultures)

Declension

Declension of condor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) condor	condorul	(niște) condori	condorii
genitive/dative	(unui) condor	condorului	(unor) condori	condorilor
vocative	condorule		condorilor

Derived terms

• condor andin
• condor californian

See also

• catartide
• urubu
• vultur
• vultur pleșuv

References

• condor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)