Raptor
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late Middle English: from Latin, literally ‘plunderer’, from rapt- ‘seized’, from the verb rapere .
wiktionary
From Latin raptor(“thief”).
Popularized (and possibly coined) in 1990 by Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park; clipping of velociraptor.
etymonline
raptor (n.)
late 14c., raptour, "a plundering bird of prey;" c. 1600, "ravisher, abductor," from Latin raptor "a robber, plunderer, abductor, ravisher," agent noun from past-participle stem of rapere "to seize" (see rapid). Modern ornithological use is by 1873, from Raptores, the order name of the birds of prey (1823, a Latin plural).
