accipiter

See also: Accipiter

English

Etymology

From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /æk.ˈsɪp.ə.tɚ/

Noun

accipiter (plural accipiters)

  1. (ornithology) Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
  2. (medicine, surgery) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

Latin

Alternative forms
  • *auceptor (Vulgar 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”). Compare with the similarly constructed Ancient Greek ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros, “swift-winged”), Proto-Slavic *asъtr(ębъ).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈki.pi.ter/, [akˈkɪ.pɪ.tɛr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.pi.ter/, [atˈt͡ʃiː.pi.ter]

Noun

accipiter m (genitive accipitris); third declension

  1. hawk, merlin
  2. a rapacious man

Declension

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
  • Aragonese: astor, azor
    • → Basque: aztore
  • → Byzantine Greek: ξιφτέρι (xiftéri), ξεφτέρι (xeftéri), ἐξιφτέριν (ἐxiftérin)
  • Catalan: astor
  • Corsican: altore
  • → English: accipiter
  • Old French: hostur, ostur
  • Italian: astore

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
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