satyr English · revision 1290

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈsætə/ ''(UK)''; /ˈseɪtɚ/, /ˈsætɚ/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It comes from Middle English ''satire'',^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) [[der|fro|satire]]^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) and [[der|la|satyrus]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) [[der|grc|σάτυρος|tr=sáturos]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) a word of unknown origin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ One of the woodland gods or demons, companions of Bacchus (about 1374–85).^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In pre-Roman Greek art satyrs had a horse's tail and ears; the image of a part-goat creature came from Roman sculptors, who assimilated them to the fauns.^(Etymonline) In Middle English the word also meant a kind of ape (1398), and zoologists later applied it to the orangutan.^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) As a type of lustfulness, a lecherous man, it is recorded from 1781.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) Confusion of ''satyric'' and ''satiric'' led to the false belief that [[satire]] came from the satyr chorus of Greek drama.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * about 1374 – a woodland deity.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1398 – a kind of ape.^(Barnhart 1995)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1781 – a lecherous man.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1871 – a butterfly.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # In Greek [[myth|alt=mythology]], a woodland creature, companion of Dionysus, part man and part horse or goat, fond of revelry.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[lecher|alt=lecherous]] man.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A man affected by [[satyriasis]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)

+ # Any of various brown butterflies with eyelike spots on the wings.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[satyric]]

+ * [[satyrlike]]

+ * [[satyr play]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[satyriasis]]

+ * [[faun]]

+ * [[satire]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}