buteo

From the genus name Buteo, from Latin būteō.

buteo (plural buteos)

1. Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.
   • 1988 February 5, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles.

From Latin būteō.

• IPA^(key): [buˈteo]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: bu‧te‧o

buteo (accusative singular buteon, plural buteoj, accusative plural buteojn)

1. buzzard

Probably imitative of a buzzard or hawk's cry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.te.oː/, [ˈbuːt̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.te.o/, [ˈbuːt̪eo]

būteō m (genitive būteōnis); third declension

1. A sort of hawk or falcon

Third-declension noun.

• Old French: buison, buson, busart
  • → Dutch: buizerd
  • → English: buzzard
  • French: buse, busard
  • → Galician: buxardo
  • → German: Bussard
  • → Spanish: busardo, buharro, guarro
    • → Tagalog: buharo

• falcō

• “buteo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buteo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• buteo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “buteo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray