Word: 'raptor' • Extended Annotations

raptor

Extended Annotations

Ancestral Lore of raptor

Latin raptor "plunderer, robber"
from Latin rapere "to seize and carry off; destroy; take away by force" + -tor agent suffix

rape, rapacity (greediness) etc. are of the same origin

14^th century, "a plunderer, a robber"

16^th century, added meaning of "a ravisher, a rapist; an abductor"

19^th century, ornithological addition: Raptores, as the order name of birds of prey

only from 1990 on: "a dromaeosaurid dinosaur"

raptor noun

a carnivorous medium- to large-sized bird (such as a hawk, eagle, owl, or vulture) that has a hooked beak and large sharp talons and that feeds wholly or chiefly on meat taken by hunting or on carrion: bird of prey
a usually small-to-medium-sized predatory dinosaur (such as a velociraptor or deinonychus)

Specific examples and quotes of raptor

“Coin, I accept from raptors and strangers, but not from friends or rangers.”

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