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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown; possibly loaned from a Pre-Greek substrate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sá.ty.ros/ → /ˈsa.ty.ros/ → /ˈsa.ti.ros/
Noun
σᾰ́τῠρος • (sáturos) m (genitive σᾰτῠ́ρου); second declension
- satyr
- lewd person
- a type of play with satyrs in the chorus
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References
- “σάτυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024