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
14th century, "a plunderer, a robber"
16th century, added meaning of "a ravisher, a rapist; an abductor"
19th century, ornithological addition: Raptores, as the order name of birds of prey
only from 1990 on: "a dromaeosaurid dinosaur"
“Coin, I accept from raptors and strangers, but not from friends or rangers.”
"Originals"
~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
⚜ | classic definition |
☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |