buteo

From the genus name Buteo, from Latin būteō.

buteo (plural buteos)

1. Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.
   • 1988, February 5, “Jerry Sullivan”, in Field & Street‎:

     In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles.

From Latin buteo.

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• IPA^(key): /buˈteo/
• Hyphenation: bu‧te‧o
• Rhymes: -eo

buteo (accusative singular buteon, plural buteoj, accusative plural buteojn)

1. buzzard

Probably imitative of a buzzard or hawk's cry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.te.oː/

būteō m (genitive būteōnis); third declension

1. A sort of hawk or falcon

Third declension.

• Old French: buison, buson, busart
  • Dutch: buizerd
  • English: buzzard
  • French: buse, busard
  • German: Bussard
  • Spanish: busardo
  • Tagalog: buharo

• falcō

• buteo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buteo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• buteo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• buteo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray