accipiter

See also: Accipiter

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin accipiter (“hawk”).

Pronunciation

• 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.

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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 Latin) IPA^(key): /akˈki.pi.ter/, [äkˈkɪpɪt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.pi.ter/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːpit̪er]

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

Related terms

• accipiō
• astur

Descendants

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

• Lombard: astor
• Occitan: astor
• Old Galician-Portuguese: açor
  • Portuguese: açor, Açores
    • → English: Azores
  • Galician: azor
• Sardinian: istore
• Spanish: azor

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