satyr

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /sæt.ə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ˈseɪt.əɹ/

Noun

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#English|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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Related terms

• satyrisk

Translations

• French: satyre
• German: Satyr
• Italian: satiro
• Portuguese: sátiro
• Russian: сати́р
• Spanish: sátiro

Translations

• French: satyre
• Spanish: sátiro

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