Otis
See also: otis
Translingual
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Greatbustard.jpg/180px-Greatbustard.jpg)
Etymology
From Latin ōtis (“bustard”), from Ancient Greek ὠτίς (ōtís).
Proper noun
Otis f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Otididae – great bustard (Otis tarda).
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Gruiformes - order; Otididae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Otis tarda - sole accepted extant species
Derived terms
References
- Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN
English
Etymology
A patronymic surname derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English genitive case of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL. given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈoʊtɪs/
Proper noun
Otis
- Lua error in Module:names at line 629: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
- (chiefly US) A male given name from the Germanic languages, 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.
- 1961 Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, 2000, →ISBN, page 74
Anagrams
Categories:
- Translingual terms derived from Latin
- Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- mul:Birds
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- American English
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Germanic languages