satyr

See also: Satyr

English

Statue of a satyr by Praxiteles

A specimen of Andromeda satyr (Cithaerias andromeda).

Alternative forms

• satyre (rare or archaic)
• satyrus (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæt.ə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪt.əɹ/
• Rhymes: -ætə(r)
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(r)

Noun

satyr (plural satyrs)

1. (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.
   • 1637, John Milton, Lycidas

     Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.

2. (Roman mythology) Synonym of faun
3. (by extension) A lecherous man.
4. Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
5. (obsolete) The orangutan.

References

“satyr”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Related terms

• satyrisk

Translations

Greek mythology

• Afrikaans: sater (af)
• Arabic: ساتير (satir)
• Asturian: sátiru m
• Bulgarian: сатир m (satir)
• Catalan: sàtir m
• Danish: satyr c
• Esperanto: satiruso
• Finnish: satyyri
• French: satyre (fr) m
• Galician: sátiro m
• German: Satyr (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σάτυρος m (sáturos)

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• Italian: satiro (it) m
• Japanese: サテュロス (satyurosu)
• Kashubian: satir m
• Latin: satyrus m
• Polish: satyr (pl) m
• Portuguese: sátiro (pt) m
• Russian: сати́р (ru) m (satír)
• Spanish: sátiro (es) m
• Swedish: satyr (sv) c
• Tagalog: satiro
• Thai: เซเทอร์ (see-tə̂ə), เมษปิศาจ (mêet-sà-bpì-sàat)
• Turkish: satir (tr)
• Urdu: ساطیر (sāter)

Lecher

• French: satyre (fr) m
• Spanish: sátiro (es) m
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• Urdu: ہوسناک (hawas nak)

Anagrams

• T-rays, artsy, stary, stray, trays, yrast

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• sater

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

• satyrspel

Related terms

• satire