tragelaphus

Latin tragelaphus

tragelaphus (plural tragelaphi)

1. A fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist.

From Ancient Greek τραγέλαφος (tragélaphos, “mythical goat-stag”), from τράγος (trágos, “billy goat”) + ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”).

tragelaphus m (genitive tragelaphī); second declension

1. goat-stag (a kind of antelope with a beard like a goat)

Second declension.

• Translingual: Tragelaphus

• tragelaphus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tragelaphus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tragelaphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette