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raptor (n.)
c. 1600, "ravisher, abductor," from Latin
raptor
"a robber, plunderer, abductor, ravisher," agent noun from past participle stem of
rapere
"to seize" (see
rapid
). Ornithological use is from 1873 (1823 in Latin plural
Raptores
).
