satyr

• satyre (rare, archaic)
• satyrus (rare)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsætə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪtɚ/, /ˈsætɚ/
• Homophone: saeter (GA pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ), -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: sa‧tyr

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.

     male variation of nymphs

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.

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

• satyrisation, satyrization
• satyrizing

• satyrisk

• satyr in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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

• sater

Ultimately from Latin satyrus,from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.tir/, /ˈsaː.tər/
• Hyphenation: sa‧tyr

satyr m (plural satyrs, diminutive satyrtje n)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) satyr, faun

• satyrspel

• satire

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tɨr/

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• Rhymes: -atɨr
• Syllabification: sa‧tyr

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

satyr m pers

1. (Greek mythology) satyr
2. satyr (lecherous man)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

satyr f

1. genitive plural of satyra

• satyr in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• satyr in Polish dictionaries at PWN