/ˈsætə/, /ˈseɪtɚ/, /ˈsætɚ/
OriginFrom French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).
- GreekA 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.
“Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
male variation of nymphs”
- RomanSynonym of faun.
- broadlyA lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- obsoleteThe orangutan.
Formssatyrs(plural) · satyre(alternative, archaic, rare) · satyrus(alternative, rare)