Where does “buwitre” come from?

buwitre (Tagalog) comes from Spanish buitre, from Old Spanish boitre, from Latin Vultur — vulture.

buwitre (Tagalog): vulture

Definitions

  1. vulture

Ancestry of “buwitre”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishbuitrevulture carrion-eating bird of the families Accipitridae or Cathartidae
2Old Spanishboitrevulture
3LatinVulturvulture
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