different between accipiter vs goshawk

English

Etymology

From Latin accipiter (“hawk”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æk.?s?p.?.t?/

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.

Latin

Alternative forms

• *auceptor (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *akupetros, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?u-péth?r?, from *h?e?us (“sharp”) + *péth?r? (“feather, wing”) (compare acus, penna). The geminate -cc- is perhaps influenced by accipi? (“take, seize”). Compare with the similarly constructed Ancient Greek ????????? (?kúpteros, “swift-winged”), Proto-Slavic *àstr??b?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ak?ki.pi.ter/, [äk?k?p?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at?t??i.pi.ter/, [?t?t??i?pit??r]

Noun

accipiter m (genitive accipitris); third declension

1. hawk, merlin
2. a rapacious man

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• accipi?
• astur

Descendants

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English goshauk, from Old English g?shafoc (“goose hawk”), from g?s (“goose”) and hafoc (“hawk”). Compare also Old Norse gáshaukr and Late Middle English gosling. The bird gets its name from the fact that the birds of the species are hawks that were alleged to prey on geese.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???sh??k/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???sh?k/
• Hyphenation: gos?hawk

Noun

goshawk (plural goshawks)

1. Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• goshawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia