[ You know what Reid does when he's under intense pressure and fear? He rambles. Still on the quiet side, but increasingly rapid. ]
It's latin for swift seizer... from the modern latin words velox, meaning quick, and raptor meaning thief. The full name is Velociraptor Mongoliensis, chosen by the paleontologist Henry F. Osbourne in 1924 after he found the first fossil in Mongolia that same year.