The corpus record — Latin

accipiter

accipiter · m

The common hawk

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Where it lives

Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. accĭpĭter — Lewis & Short

accĭpĭter, tris (earlier also tĕris, m. (f.w)ku/pteros, swift-winged], a general name for birds of prey, esp. those of the falcon kind,

Prisc. p. 695 P.), Lucr. 4, 1006) [com. deriv. from accipio; see 2. acceptor; but cf. Plin. 10, 8, 9, § 21; Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 16; Lucr. 5, 107; Cic. N. D. 3, 19; Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 50 al.—

B In partic.

1 The common hawk, Falco Palumbarius, Linn.; Hor. C. 1, 37, 17 sq.; Ov. M. 5, 605 sq.; Col. 8, 4, 6; 3, 8, 4 al.: sacer, because auguries were taken from it, Verg. A. 11, 721 (cf. Hom. Od. 15, 525 sq.).—

2 The sparrowhawk, Falco Nisus, Linn., used in fowling; Mart. 14, 216.—

II Transf., of a rapacious man: labes populi, pecuniai accipiter, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 5.

2. accipiter — Walde–Hofmann

accipiter, -fris m. (f. Lucr.) „Habicht, Falke“ (seit Plaut.; davon accipetrina sc. manus „furatrix*, aecipärö ,lacero* Laev.): wohl aus *acü-peter ,schnellfliegend* (mit ce durch volksetym. Anlehnung an accipere [Is1d. 12, 7, 55], woher auch die Nebenform acceptor |seit Lucil, rom., vgl astur] davon -@rius ,Falkenierer* Anth). Das zweite Glied *-pefer zu ai. pátram „Flügel“, gr. mrep6v ds., kymr. atar ,volucres*, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. accipiter, p. 38]

In the wild

accipiter Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.606
accipiter Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.344
accipiter Ovid, Tristia 1.1.76
accipiter Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.8.9
accípiter Plautus, Persa 3.3
accipiter Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.60.p1

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. accipiter (scan p. 29; entry #111).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. accipiter (scan p. 38; entry #79). Root candidates: *aku-.

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