satyr

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

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

A specimen of Andromeda satyr (Cithaerias andromeda).

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

satyr (plural satyrs)

1. (Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a goat and a perpetual erection.
   • (Can we date this quote by Milton?)

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

2. (Roman mythology) Synonym of faun
3. 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.

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

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

• satyrisk

• 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