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Webster 1913 Edition
Accipiter
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Ac-cip′i-ter
,Noun.
pl. E.
Accipiters
. L. Accipitres
. [L., hawk.]
1.
(Zool.)
A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
2.
(Surg.)
A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accipiter
ACCIP'ITER
,Noun.
1.
A name given to a fish, the milvus or lucerna, a species of Trigla.2.
In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls.The accipiters have a hooked bill, the superior mandible, near the base, being extended on each side beyond the inferior. The genera are the vultur, the falco, or hawk, and the strix, or owl.
Definition 2024
Accipiter
Accipiter
See also: accipiter
Translingual
Proper noun
Accipiter m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Accipitridae – goshawks, sparrow hawks..
Hypernyms
- (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Accipitriformes - order; Accipitridae - family; Acciptrinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
References
- Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276
accipiter
accipiter
See also: Accipiter
English
Noun
accipiter (plural accipiters)
- (ornithology) Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
- (medicine, surgery) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
Latin
accipiter volāns (a hawk in flight)
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱus (“sharp”) + *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”) (compare acus, penna). The geminate -cc- is perhaps influenced by accipiō (“take, seize”). Confer with the similarly constructed Ancient Greek ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros, “swift-winged”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈki.pi.ter/
Noun
accipiter m (genitive accipitris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | accipiter | accipitrēs |
| genitive | accipitris | accipitrum |
| dative | accipitrī | accipitribus |
| accusative | accipitrem | accipitrēs |
| ablative | accipitre | accipitribus |
| vocative | accipiter | accipitrēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: Azores
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “accipiter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- accipiter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers