centaur

See also: Centaur

English

A bronze statue of a centaur

Alternative forms

• (astronomy): Centaur

Etymology

From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕn'tô(r), IPA^(key): /ˈsɛntɔː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛntɑɹ/
• Hyphenation: cen‧taur

Noun

centaur (plural centaurs)

1. (Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

   Synonym: hippocentaur

2. (astronomy, also capitalised) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
3. (chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
   • 2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books (→ISBN), page 159:

     This was not Kasparov's approach. Instead of rejecting the machines, he returned the year after his defeat to Deep Blue with a different kind of chess, which he called ‘Advanced Chess’. Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.

Translations

mythical half-man, half-horse

• Afrikaans: sentour (af) m
• Arabic: قنطور m (quntur)
• Armenian: կենտավրոս (hy) (kentavros)
• Asturian: centauru m
• Azerbaijani: kentavr
• Belarusian: кентаўр m (kjentaŭr)
• Bulgarian: кентавър m (kentavǎr)
• Catalan: centaure m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人馬／人马 (zh) (rénmǎ), 人马 (zh) (rénmǎ), 半人馬／半人马 (zh) (bànrénmǎ), 半人马 (zh) (bànrénmǎ)

• Czech: kentaur m
• Danish: kentaur c
• Dutch: paardmens m, kentaur (nl) m, centaur (nl) m
• Esperanto: centaŭro
• Faroese: rossmaður m
• Finnish: kentauri (fi)
• French: centaure (fr) m
• Galician: centauro (gl) m
• German: Kentaur (de) m, Zentaur (de) m
• Hungarian: kentaur (hu)
• Ido: centauro (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: ceinteár m
• Italian: centauro (it) m
• Japanese: ケンタウロス (ja) (Kentaurosu), 人馬 (じんば, jinba)
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• Korean: 켄타우로스 (kentauroseu), 인마 (ko) (inma)
• Latin: centaurus m
• Lithuanian: kentauras m
• Marathi: सेंटॉर m (seṃṭǒra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kentaur (no) m

  Nynorsk: kentaur m

• Polish: centaur (pl) m
• Portuguese: centauro (pt) m
• Russian: кента́вр (ru) m (kentávr), китовра́с (ru) m (kitovrás) (Russian mythology)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кентаур m

  Roman: kentaur (sh) m

• Slovak: centaurus (sk) m, kentaur m, kentaurus (sk) m
• Slovene: kentaver m (as a creature), Kentaver m (as a member of a 'people')
• Spanish: centauro (es) m
• Swahili: kentauro
• Swedish: kentaur (sv) c
• Tagalog: sentawro
• Turkish: kentaur, kentauroi pl, at adam, aryunt, eryunt, yaryunt
• Ukrainian: кента́вр m (kentávr)
• Volapük: käntor (vo)
• Welsh: dynfarch m

astronomy

• Bulgarian: Кентавър (Kentavǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 半人馬座／半人马座 (zh) (Bànrénmǎzuò), 半人马座 (zh) (bànrénmǎzuò)

• Czech: Kentaur (cs) m, souhvězdí Kentaura n
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• French: Centaure (fr)
• Hungarian: Kentaur
• Italian: centauro (it) m
• Japanese: ケンタウルス (Kentaurusu), ケンタウロス (ja) (Kentaurosu), ケンタウルス族 (Kentaurusuzoku)

See also

• centaurial
• centaurian
• centauric
• centauroid
• centauress, centaurette
• faun
• minotaur
• onocentaur
• satyr

Further reading

• Centaur (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• near cut, traunce, uncrate, untrace

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• kentaur

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnˌtɑu̯ər/, /ˈkɛnˌtɑu̯ər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cen‧taur

Noun

centaur m (plural centauren, diminutive centaurtje n)

1. centaur

   Synonyms: menspaard, paardmens