Condor
/ˈkɒn.dɔːr/noun
A very large New World vulture, especially of the Andes and western North America.
Did you know?The English word entered through Spanish condor, which likely came from Quechua kuntur, a name for the Andean bird long before Europeans gave it a global stage.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-Columbian Andes
Quechua
kuntur
“the Andean condor”
16th Century
Spanish
condor
“the large Andean vulture”
17th–18th Century
English
condor
“a New World vulture, especially the Andean bird”
Modern English
English
condor
“any of the large scavenging birds of the genus Gymnogyps or Vultur”