accipiter

From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɚ/

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accipiter (plural accipiters)

1. (ornithology) Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
2. (ornithology) Any hawk formerly classified in the genus Accipiter, such as Tachyspiza and Astur.
3. (medicine, surgery) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

• acceptor (Late Latin)

From Proto-Italic *akupetros, from Proto-Indo-European *HHḱu-péth₂r̥, from *HéHḱus (“swift, quick”) + *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”) (compare penna). The geminate -cc- is perhaps influenced by accipiō (“take, seize”). Compare with the similarly constructed Ancient Greek ὠκύπτερος (ōkúpteros, “swift-winged”), Proto-Slavic *àstrę̄bъ.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [akˈkɪ.pɪ.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈt͡ʃiː.pi.t̪er]

accipiter m (genitive accipitris); third declension

1. hawk, merlin

   Synonyms: acceptor, astur, falcō, nīsus

   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.75–76:

     Terrētur minimō pennae strīdōre columbā,
     unguibus, accipiter, sauciā facta tuīs.

     The dove is terrified by the slightest rustle of a feather, having been wounded by your talons, hawk.

2. a rapacious man

Third-declension noun.

(mostly via Vulgar Latin acceptor)

• “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