voltor

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan voltor, from Latin vulturius, or possibly through a Vulgar Latin *vultōrem. Compare Occitan voltor; French vautour; Italian avvoltoio, avvoltore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bulˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [volˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [volˈtoɾ]

• Audio:

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Noun

voltor m (plural voltors)

1. vulture

References

• “voltor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “voltor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “voltor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• voltre
• voutor
• vutre

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin vulturius, or possibly through a Vulgar Latin *vultor, vultōre; some variant forms such as voltre and vutre from vultur, vulturem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bulˈtu]

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Noun

voltor m

1. (Languedoc) vulture

Swedish

Noun

voltor

1. indefinite plural of volta