different between arctic vs gyrfalcon

English

Adjective

arctic (comparative more arctic, superlative most arctic)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Arctic

Noun

arctic (plural arctics)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Arctic

Anagrams

• -cratic, cratic

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin arcticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (arktikós, “northern, of the (Great) Bear”), from ?????? (árktos, “bear, Ursa Major”).

Adjective

arctic m or n (feminine singular arctic?, masculine plural arctici, feminine and neuter plural arctice)

1. Arctic

Derived terms

• Oceanul Arctic m (“Arctic Ocean”)

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• gerfalcon, jerfalcon

Etymology

From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German g?r (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???f??lk?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d???fælk?n/

Noun

gyrfalcon (plural gyrfalcons)

1. (obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
2. Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 132:

     [...] the usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its [...] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game.

Translations

Further reading

• Falco rusticolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies