different between lagopus vs ptarmigan

English

Etymology

From the Latin lag?p?s, from the Ancient Greek ???????? (lag?pous), from ????? (lag?s, “hare”) + ???? (poús, “foot”); compare lagopod, lagopode.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: l?g??p?s, IPA^(key): /l?????p?s/
• Homophone: lagopous

Noun

lagopus (plural lagopodes)

1. (obsolete) The ptarmigan (which bird was so called because its feet resemble those of a hare).

References

• “†Lago·pus” listed on page 28 of volume VI, part I (L, M) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1908]
  ??†Lago·pus.?Obs.?[a. L. lag?p?s, Gr. ????????, f. ????? hare + ???? foot.]?A bird with a foot resembling that of a hare; the ptarmigan.?[¶]?1693 Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 385 Some..Birds..live upon the highest tops of the Alps, and that all the winter too..as..the Lagopus among birds.?1773 Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 224 The Lagopus, of which M. de Buffon gives an engraving, is in its winter plumage.
• “†la?gopus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Anagrams

• Gopauls

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (lag?pous), from ????? (lag?s, “hare”) + ???? (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la??o?.pu?s/, [??ä??o?pu?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la??o.pus/, [l?????pus]

Noun

lag?p?s f (genitive lag?podis); third declension

1. ptarmigan (a bird)
2. hare's-foot (a herb)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• lagopus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic tarmachan, of unknown origin. The pt- comes from a mistaken belief in a Greek origin, as if related to ptero- (“wing”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??m???n/

Noun

ptarmigan (plural ptarmigan or ptarmigans)

1. Any of three species of small grouse in the genus Lagopus found in subarctic tundra areas of North America and Eurasia.

Synonyms

• (species of small grouse): lagopus (obsolete)

Derived terms

• rock ptarmigan, Lagopus muta
• white-tailed ptarmigan, Lagopus leucura
• willow ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus

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