Editing Jaguar (section)

==Etymology==
The word "jaguar" is possibly derived from the [[Tupi-Guarani]] word {{lang|und|yaguara}} meaning 'wild beast that overcomes its prey at a bound'.<ref name=Guggisberg1975>{{Cite book |last=Guggisberg |first=C. A. W. |title=Wild Cats of the World |year=1975 |publisher=Taplinger Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8008-8324-9 |chapter=Jaguar ''Panthera onca'' (Linnaeus, 1758) |pages=247–265}}</ref><ref name=Seymour/> In North America, the word is pronounced disyllabic {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|æ|g|w|ɑːr}}, while in British English, it is pronounced with three syllables {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|æ|g|juː|ər}}.<ref>{{cite book |author=Qualls, E. J. |year=2012 |title=The Qualls Concise English Grammar |publisher=Danaan Press |isbn=9781890000097 |chapter=The dialects of English |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjrd5UnFT2gC&pg=PT29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jaguar |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/jaguar |website=[[Cambridge Dictionary]] |access-date=16 November 2021 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112012608/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/jaguar |url-status=live}}</ref> Because that word also applies to other animals, [[indigenous peoples in Guyana]] call it {{lang|gyn|jaguareté}}, with the added sufix ''eté'', meaning "true beast".<ref>{{cite book |author=Labat, J.B. |author-link=Jean-Baptiste Labat |year=1731 |chapter=Once, espèce de Tigre |title=Voyage du chevalier Des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et à Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726 & 1727 |location=Amsterdam |publisher=La Compagnie |volume=III |page=285 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfdWAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA6-PA5 |access-date=13 August 2020 |archive-date=29 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129021340/https://books.google.com/books?id=dfdWAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA6-PA5 |url-status=live}}</ref>
"Onca" is derived from the Portuguese name {{lang|pt|onça}} for a spotted cat that is larger than a [[lynx]]; cf. [[Snow leopard|''ounce'']].<ref>{{cite book |author=Ray, J. |author-link=John Ray |year=1693 |chapter=Pardus an Lynx brasiliensis, ''Jaguara'' |title=Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpentini Generis. Vulgarium Notas Characteristicas, Rariorum Descriptiones integras exhibens |publisher=S. Smith & B. Walford |location=London |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/synopsismethodic00rayj/page/168/mode/1up |page=168}}</ref> The word "panther" is derived from [[classical Latin]] {{lang|la|panthēra}}, itself from the [[ancient Greek]] {{lang|grc|πάνθηρ}} ({{transliteration|grc|pánthēr}}).<ref>{{cite book |author1=Liddell, H. G. |author2=Scott, R. |year=1940 |name-list-style=amp |script-chapter=el:πάνθηρ |title=A Greek-English Lexicon |edition=Revised and augmented |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2377441 |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=11 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411203109/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2377441 |url-status=live}}</ref>