Translingual

Wikispecies

great bustard (Otis tarda), the only species in in its genus.

Proper noun

Otis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Otididae, the bustard family of birds.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clade; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Otidiformes - order; Otididae - family

Derived terms

• Ardeotis

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

English

Proper noun

Otis

1. A surname​, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
2. (chiefly US) A male given name, transferred from the surname.
   • 1961 Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, 2000, ISBN 0375708448, page 74

     - - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.

Latin

Noun

otīs

1. dative plural of otus
2. ablative plural of otus

References

• otis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• otis in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly