accipiter

Etymology

From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).

Pronunciation

• (US) 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.

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”). Confer with the similarly constructed Ancient Greek ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros, “swift-winged”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /akˈki.pi.ter/, [akˈkɪ.pɪ.tɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.pi.ter/, [atˈt͡ʃiː.pi.ter]

Noun

accipiter m (genitive accipitris); third declension

1. hawk, merlin
2. a rapacious man

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