capriped

English

Etymology

From Latin capriped-, capripēs.

Adjective

capriped (not comparable)

1. Having or relating to feet like those of a goat.
   • 1876 June 29, Frank Carpenter, “Notes of the Wheeler Expedition”, in Forest and Stream, volume 6, number 21, →ISSN, page 336:

     […] so deep in the confidence of nature in general that they seem to belong to the forest, and to be fellows with its denizens, like the capriped satyrs […]

Noun

capriped (plural capripeds)

1. (mythology) A goat-footed person; a satyr.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 35:

     And into the hall twirled six capripeds, footing it lightly as the music swept ever faster, and a one-footer that leaped hither and thither about and about, as the flea hoppeth, till the Witches grew hoarse with singing and shouting and hounding of him on.

Alternative forms

• capripede