SATYR


Meaning of SATYR in English

[ 'satə ]

■ noun

1》 Greek Mythology one of a class of lustful, drunken woodland gods, represented as a man with a horse's ears and tail or (in Roman representations) with a goat's ears, tail, legs, and horns.

2》 a man with strong sexual desires.

3》 a butterfly with chiefly dark brown wings. [ Satyrus and other genera.]

Derivatives

~ic adjective

Origin

ME: from OFr. ~e , or via L. from Gk saturos .

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