Noun: satyr
| Singular | satyr |
| Plural | satyrs |
Sample Sentences
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Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
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male variation of nymphs [1637, John Milton, Lycidas:]
Nouns inflected like satyr
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos). See: French Nouns '
satyre', Latin Nouns '
satyrus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σάτυρος'.