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Where does “Accipiter” come from?

Accipiter (Translingual) comes from Latin accipiter, from Latin accipio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “Accipiter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinaccipiterhawk, merlin; a rapacious man
2LatinaccipioI receive, accept, take; I hear , learn , learn;...
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “Accipiter”

  • Accipitridae
  • Accipitriformes
  • Accipitrinae
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