Butastur

Translingual

Etymology

The Genus-name Butastur comes from Latin ‘Buteo’, which is the Latin name of Common Buzzard, one kind of small hawk and other Latin word ‘astur’, which also means ‘a hawk’ to mention a group of hawk, which are different from Buteo http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.695.7104&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Proper noun

Butastur m

A taxonomic genus within the family Accipitridae.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Reptilia - class; Aves - subclass; Neognathae - infraclass; Neoaves - superorder; Accipitriformes - order; Accipitridae - family; Buteoninae - subfamily

References

Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

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