raptor

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæptɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)

From Latin raptor (“thief”).

• raptour (obsolete, rare)

raptor (plural raptors)

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

Popularized (and possibly coined) in 1990 by Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park; clipping of velociraptor, ultimately of the same etymology above.

raptor (plural raptors)

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

• raptor at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Parrot, parrot

From rapiō (“seize, grab, snatch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tor/, [ˈräpt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrap.tor/, [ˈräpt̪or]

raptor m (genitive raptōris); third declension

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

   Synonym: rapīnātor

Third-declension noun.

• raptrīx

• → Catalan: raptor
• → English: raptor
• → Portuguese: raptor
• → Spanish: raptor

• “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

From Latin raptor.

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

1. abductor; kidnapper

   Synonym: sequestrador

From Latin raptor.

• IPA^(key): /rabˈtoɾ/ [raβ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: rap‧tor

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

1. kidnapper; abductor

• “raptor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014