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English
Noun
satyr (plural satyrs)
- (Greek mythology) A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- ✤ Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel,/From the glad sound would not be absent long.
male variation of nymphs1- (Roman mythology) Synonym of faun.
- (by extension) A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- (obsolete) The orangutan.
Etymology
From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsætə/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈseɪtɚ/, /ˈsætɚ/
- Audio (US): 🔊
- Homophones: saeter (GA pronunciation), sadder (flapping)
- Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ), -eɪtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: sa‧tyr
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Footnotes
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1637, John Milton, Lycidas: ↩