different between raptor vs brancher

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æpt?/

Etymology 1

From Latin raptor (“thief”).

Alternative forms

• raptour (obsolete, rare)

Noun

raptor (plural raptors)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Popularized (and possibly coined) in 1990 by Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park; clipping of velociraptor.

Noun

raptor (plural raptors)

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

Further reading

• raptor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Parrot, parrot

Latin

Etymology

From rapi? (“seize, grab, snatch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?rap.tor/, [?räpt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?rap.tor/, [?r?pt??r]

Noun

raptor m (genitive rapt?ris); third declension

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

   Synonym: rap?n?tor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• raptr?x

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: raptor
• ? Spanish: raptor

References

• 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

Portuguese

Noun

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

1. abductor; kidnapper

   Synonym: sequestrador

Spanish

Noun

raptor m (plural raptores)

1. kidnapper; abductor

English

Etymology

branch +? -er

Noun

brancher (plural branchers)

1. That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
2. (falconry) A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings.

Anagrams

• rebranch

French

Etymology

branche +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???.?e/

Verb

brancher

1. to connect (appliance)
2. (computing) to branch
3. (Louisiana) to branch off, to turn (of a road)

   Synonym: fourcher

Conjugation

Further reading

• “brancher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).