raptor

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæptɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)

From Middle English raptour, from Latin raptor (“kidnapper, thief”).

• raptour (obsolete, rare)

raptor (plural raptors)

1. A bird of prey.
2. (obsolete) One who ravishes or plunders.

Popularized (and possibly coined) in 1990 by Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park; clipping of velociraptor, ultimately of the same etymology as above.

raptor (plural raptors)

1. (informal, paleontology) One of the dromaeosaurs, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs having tearing claws on the hind legs.

• “raptor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Parrot, parrot

Learned borrowing from Latin raptor.

raptor m (plural raptors, feminine raptora, feminine plural raptores)

1. kidnapper, abductor

• raptar
• rapte

• “raptor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

From rapiō (“seize, grab, snatch”) +‎ -tor

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrap.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrap.t̪or]

raptor m (genitive raptōris); third declension

1. A thief, robber, plunderer.
2. An abductor, kidnapper.

   Synonym: rapīnātor

Third-declension noun.

• raptrīx

• → Catalan: raptor
• → English: raptor
• → Portuguese: raptor
• → Spanish: raptor

• “raptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “raptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• raptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: rap‧tor

Learned borrowing from Latin raptor.

raptor m (plural raptores, feminine raptora, feminine plural raptoras)

1. abductor; kidnapper

   Synonym: sequestrador

2. bird of prey

   Synonym: ave de rapina

raptor (feminine raptora, masculine plural raptores, feminine plural raptoras)

1. abductive
2. (relational) of birds of prey

   Synonym: rapinante

Borrowed from English raptor

raptor m (plural raptores)

1. (informal, paleontology) raptor

• “raptor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “raptor”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “raptor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “raptor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “raptor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from Latin raptor.

• IPA^(key): /rabˈtoɾ/ [raβ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: rap‧tor

raptor m (plural raptores, feminine raptora, feminine plural raptoras)

1. kidnapper; abductor

   Synonym: secuestrador

• “raptor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024