condor

From Spanish cóndor, from Classical Quechua kuntur. The change /t/ to /d/ was characteristic of the "coastal" variety of the language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒndɔː(ɹ)/

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condor (plural condors or condor)

1. Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two: the Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world.

2. A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.
3. An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.
4. (golf) The completion of a hole four strokes under par (a quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross).
5. (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at four strike prices, giving limited profit and limited risk.

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• birdie
• eagle
• albatross

• Andean condor
• California condor
• Condor Legion
• Condor moment
• iron condor

• → Welsh: condor
• → Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu)

• Cordon, con rod, conrod, cordon

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.dɔr/

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• Hyphenation: con‧dor

condor m (plural condors)

1. condor, Andean condor, Vultur gryphus

   Synonym: Andescondor

2. (rare) California condor, Gymnogyps californianus

   Synonym: Californische condor

• Andescondor
• Californische condor

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɔʁ/

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condor m (plural condors)

1. condor (American species of vultures)

• “condor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cóndor.

condor m (invariable)

1. condor (bird)

• condor delle Ande
• condor della California

• condor in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• condro, condro-

condor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of condō

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: con‧dor

condor m (plural condores)

1. condor (American species of vultures)
2. condor (golden coin of Ecuador)
3. (historical) condor (golden coin of Chile and Colombia)
4. (Brazil, figurative, of a person) standout

• “condor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “condor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from French condor, Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

• IPA^(key): /konˈdor/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkondor/

condor m (plural condori)

1. condor (American species of vultures)

• condor andin
• condor californian

• catartide
• urubu
• vultur
• vultur pleșuv

• “condor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Borrowed from English condor, from Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

condor m (plural condoriaid)

1. condor

• condor Califfornia
• condor yr Andes