azor

See also: Azor

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese açor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin acceptor, replacement of Latin accipiter. Cognate with Portuguese açor and Spanish azor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈθoɾ/, (western) /aˈsoɾ/

Noun

azor m (plural azores)

1. (ornithology) a goshawk bird

   O azor no pau, e o falcón na mau. (proverb)

   The goshawk in the spear, and the falcon on the hand.

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 438:

     Outras uezes fazía cõbater serpentes et peleiar grifos et liões et fazía caçar falcões et gaujães et açores et outras aues

     Other times he would make serpents fight, and gryphons and lions, and he would make falcons hunt, and sparrow-hawks and goshawks and other birds

Derived terms

• azorar
• Azoreira
• Azoreiras
• Azoreiros

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “açor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “azor”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “azor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “azor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “azor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish aztor, adtor, from Vulgar Latin *acceptor, replacement of Latin accipiter. For the simplification of the cluster, compare rezar from recitāre and plazo from placitum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈθoɾ/ [aˈθoɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /aˈsoɾ/ [aˈsoɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: a‧zor

Noun

azor m (plural azores)

1. (ornithology) a goshawk bird

Derived terms

• azorar

Descendants

• ⇒ Translingual: Azorella

Further reading

• “azor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025