condor

See also: Condor and cóndor

English

Etymology

From Spanish cóndor, from Classical Quechua kuntur. The change /t/ to /d/ was characteristic of the "coastal" variety of the language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒndɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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Wikipedia

condor (plural condors or condor)

1. Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two: the Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world.

2. A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.
3. An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.
4. (golf) The completion of a hole four strokes under par (a quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross).
5. (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at four strike prices, giving limited profit and limited risk.

Coordinate terms

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• birdie
• eagle
• albatross

Derived terms

• Andean condor
• California condor
• Condor Legion
• Condor moment
• iron condor

Descendants

• → Welsh: condor
• → Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu)

Translations

California condor

Arabic: كُنْدُور m (kundūr) Belarusian: ко́ндар m (kóndar) Bulgarian: ко́ндор m (kóndor) Catalan: còndor (ca) m Central Nahuatl: tzopilocuauhtli Chinese: Mandarin: 禿鷹 / 秃鹰 (zh) (tūyīng) Czech: kondor m Danish: kondor c Esperanto: kondoro Finnish: kondori (fi) French: condor (fr) m Georgian: კონდორი (ḳondori) German: Kondor (de) m Hungarian: kondorkeselyű (hu), kondor (hu) Irish: condar m Italian: condor (it) m, condor della California m Japanese: コンドル (ja) (kondoru) Kashaya: ʔihsul Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu) Macedonian: кондор m (kondor) Navajo: jeeshóóʼ Portuguese: condor (pt) m Quechua: kuntur Romanian: condor (ro) m, condor californian m Russian: ко́ндор (ru) m (kóndor) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кондор m Roman: kondor (sh) m Spanish: cóndor (es) m Swedish: kondor (sv) c Tagalog: kondor Telugu: డేగ (te) (ḍēga) Ukrainian: ко́ндор (uk) m (kóndor) Welsh: condor m

Andean condor

Bulgarian: ко́ндор m (kóndor) Catalan: còndor (ca) m Czech: kondor m Danish: kondor Finnish: kondori (fi) Georgian: კონდორი (ḳondori) German: Kondor (de) m Hungarian: kondorkeselyű (hu), kondor (hu) Icelandic: kondór m Irish: condar m Italian: condor (it) m, condor delle Ande m Japanese: コンドル (ja) (kondoru) Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu) Navajo: shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ jeeshóóʼ Portuguese: condor (pt) m Quechua: kuntur Romanian: condor (ro) m, condor andin m Russian: ко́ндор (ru) m (kóndor) Spanish: cóndor (es) m Tagalog: kondor Welsh: condor m

Anagrams

• Cordon, con rod, conrod, cordon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor, from Quechua kuntur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.dɔr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: con‧dor

Noun

condor m (plural condors, no diminutive)

1. condor, Andean condor, Vultur gryphus

   Synonym: Andescondor

2. (rare) California condor, Gymnogyps californianus

   Synonym: Californische condor

Derived terms

• Andescondor
• Californische condor

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cóndor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɔʁ/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

  (file)

Noun

condor m (plural condors)

1. condor (American species of vultures)

Further reading

• “condor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cóndor.

Noun

condor m (invariable)

1. condor (bird)

Derived terms

• condor delle Ande
• condor della California

Further reading

• condor in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• condro, condro-

Latin

Verb

condor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of condō