accipiter

See also: Accipiter

English

Etymology

From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɚ/

• Audio (US):

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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

• accipitral
• accipitrine

 

Translations

hawk of the genus Accipiter

• Finnish: lintuhaukka

bandage over the nose

Latin

accipiter volāns (a hawk flying)

Alternative forms

• acceptor (Late Latin)

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /akˈki.pi.ter/, [äkˈkɪpɪt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.pi.ter/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːpit̪er]

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)

• Aragonese: astor, azor
  • → Basque: aztore
• → Byzantine Greek: ξιφτέρι (xiftéri), ξεφτέρι (xeftéri), ἐξιφτέριν (exiphtérin)
  • → Albanian: qift (“kite”), skifter
• Catalan: astor
• Corsican: altore
• → English: accipiter
• Old French: hostur, ostur, ostor, ostoir
  • French: autour
• Italian: astore
• Lombard: astor
• Occitan: astor
• Old Galician-Portuguese: açor
  • Galician: azor
  • Portuguese: açor, Açores
    • → English: Azores
• Sardinian: istore
• Old Spanish: adtor
  • Spanish: azor

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