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onocentaurus
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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ὀνοκένταυρος (onokéntauros), an alternative form of ὀνοκένταυρα (onokéntaura, a kind of tailless ape, a kind of demon haunting wild places), presumably from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔ.nɔ.kɛnˈtau̯.rʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.no.t͡ʃenˈtaːu̯.rus]
Noun
onocentaurus m (genitive onocentaurī); second declension
- onocentaur (a centaur with the body of an ass)
- (transferred sense) used of an impure person
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- English: onocentaur
- French: onocentaure
References
- “onocentaurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “onocentaurus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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