semitaur
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin semi-, 'half', + taurus, 'bull'.
Noun
[edit]semitaur (plural semitaurs)
- A mythical beast, half man, half bull.
- 1592, Nicholas Breton, The pilgrimage to paradise, ioyned with the Countesse of Penbrookes loue, compiled in verse by Nicholas Breton Gentleman, Ioseph Barnes, page 8:
- Some semitawres, and some more halfe a beare
Other halfe swine deepe wallowing in the miers.
- Some semitawres, and some more halfe a beare
- 1592, Nicholas Breton, The pilgrimage to paradise, ioyned with the Countesse of Penbrookes loue, compiled in verse by Nicholas Breton Gentleman, Ioseph Barnes, page 8:
References
[edit]- “semitaur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.