semicaper

Latin

Etymology

From sēmi- (“half, semi-”) +‎ caper (“goat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seːˈmɪ.ka.pɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈmiː.ka.per]

Noun

sēmicaper m (genitive sēmicaprī); second declension

1. half-goat; epithet of the god Pan or Faunus

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	sēmicaper	sēmicaprī
genitive	sēmicaprī	sēmicaprōrum
dative	sēmicaprō	sēmicaprīs
accusative	sēmicaprum	sēmicaprōs
ablative	sēmicaprō	sēmicaprīs
vocative	sēmicaper	sēmicaprī

References

• “semicaper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semicaper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “semicaper”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.