lagopus

From the Latin lagōpūs, from the Ancient Greek λαγώπους (lagṓpous), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς (poús, “foot”); compare lagopod, lagopode. The bird was given this name because its feet resemble those of a hare.

• (UK) enPR: ləgōʹpəs, IPA^(key): /ləˈɡəʊpəs/
• Homophone: lagopous

lagopus (plural lagopodes)

1. (obsolete) The ptarmigan.

• “†Lago·pus” listed on page 28 of volume VI, part I (L, M) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1908]
    †Lago·pus. Obs. [a. L. lagōpūs, Gr. λαγώπους, f. λαγώς hare + πούς foot.] A bird with a foot resembling that of a hare; the ptarmigan. [¶] 1693 Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 385 Some..Birds..live upon the highest tops of the Alps, and that all the winter too..as..the Lagopus among birds. 1773 Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 224 The Lagopus, of which M. de Buffon gives an engraving, is in its winter plumage.
• “†laˈgopus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

• Gopauls

From Ancient Greek λαγώπους (lagṓpous), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫaˈɡoː.puːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [laˈɡɔː.pus]

lagōpūs f (genitive lagōpodis); third declension

1. ptarmigan (a bird)
2. hare's-foot (a herb)

Third-declension noun.

• “lagopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press