satyr

See also: Satyr

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /sæt.ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈseɪt.ər/
  • Rhymes: -ætə(r)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(r)

Noun

satyr (plural satyrs)

  1. (Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a goat and a perpetual erection.
    • Milton
      Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
  2. (Roman mythology) A faun.
  3. A lecherous man.
  4. Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
  5. (obsolete) The orangutan.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for satyr in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:libertine

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Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin satyrus,from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaː.tir/, /ˈsaː.tər/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧tyr

Noun

satyr m (plural satyrs, diminutive satyrtje n)

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) satyr, faun

Derived terms

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