different between raptor vs buteo

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

From the genus name Buteo, from Latin b?te?.

Noun

buteo (plural buteos)

1. Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.

Translations

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin buteo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?teo/
• Hyphenation: bu?te?o
• Rhymes: -eo

Noun

buteo (accusative singular buteon, plural buteoj, accusative plural buteojn)

1. buzzard

Latin

Etymology

Probably imitative of a buzzard or hawk's cry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bu?.te.o?/, [?bu?t?eo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bu.te.o/, [?bu?t???]

Noun

b?te? m (genitive b?te?nis); third declension

1. A sort of hawk or falcon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Old French: buison, buson, busart
  • ? Dutch: buizerd
  • ? English: buzzard
  • French: buse, busard
  • ? Galician: buxardo
  • ? German: Bussard
  • ? Spanish: busardo, buharro, guarro
    • ? Tagalog: buharo

See also

• falc?

References

• buteo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buteo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• buteo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• buteo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray