satyr
noun
- goat-like male companions of Pan and Dionysus, in Greek mythology
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsætə/ / /ˈseɪtɚ/ / /ˈsætɚ/
noun
Etymology: From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).
- 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.
“Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long. male variation of nymphs”
- Synonym of faun.
- A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- The orangutan.