Otis

From Latin ōtis (“bustard”), from Ancient Greek ὠτίς (ōtís).

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Otididae, the bustard family of birds.

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clade; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Otidiformes - order; Otididae - family

• Ardeotis

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

A patronymic surname derived from Middle English genitive case of the Germanic given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊtɪs/

Otis

1. A surname​, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
2. (chiefly US) A male given name, transferred from the surname.
   • 1961 Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, 2000, →ISBN, page 74

     […] in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.

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