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satyr - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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 nymphs      1
  • (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

  1. 1637, John Milton, Lycidas: ↩

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