accipiter

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I can often tell when there is an accipiter in the neighborhood as the birds disappear from the feeders.

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  1. noun A hawk of the genus Accipiter, characterized by short wings and a long tail.

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  1. Latin, hawk; see ōku- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, a general name for birds of prey, especially the common hawk (Falco palumbarius) and the sparrow-hawk (F. nisus), an apparently (irreg.) deriv. of accipere, take (hence the rare form acceptor, literally the taker, seizer), but prob. for *ācipiter, from āci-, *ācu- (= Greek ὠκύς), swift, + petrum (= Greek πτερόν = English feather), wing. Cf. Greek ὠκύπτερος, swift-winged, applied to a hawk (Homer, Il., xiii. 62).
 

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/ækˈsɪpɪtər/
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