Centaur

See also centaur

English

Wikipedia

Centaur Chiron with Achilles (1)

Alternative forms

• (astronomy): centaur

Etymology

{ME}; Latin Centaurus; Greek (Kentauros); (Eng. usg. ca. 14c)

Noun

Centaur (plural Centaurs)

1. (Greek mythology) One of a race of monsters having a head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. Often depicted as rowdy drunkards, with Chiron being a notable exception.
2. A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
3. (rocketry) A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
4. (astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune

Translations

Greek mythology

• French: Centaure (fr)
• German: Zentaur (de) m
• Hungarian: kentaur (hu)

• Japanese: ケンタウロス (ja) (Kentaurosu), ケンタウルス (ja) (Kentaurusu)
• Slovene: Kentaver (sl) m

a skillful horseman or horsewoman

• Japanese: 名騎手 (ja) (meikishu), 名ジョッキー (ja) (meijokkī)

Rocketry

astronomy

• Bulgarian: Кентавър (bg) (Kentavǎr)
• French: Centaure (fr)
• Hungarian: Kentaur (hu)

• Japanese: ケンタウルス (ja) (Kentaurusu), ケンタウロス (ja) (Kentaurosu), ケンタウルス族 (ja) (Kentaurusuzoku)

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• Norwegian: kentaur m

Anagrams

• uncrate

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Dutch

Etymology

From centaur.

Proper noun

Centaur m

1. (astronomy) Centaurus