Meanings
aegipan1
plural aegipans · plural aegipanes · alternative oegipan
- Greekhuman sciencesA goat-like creature resembling a satyr, sometimes portrayed as having a fish's tail.
there were passages in Pomponius Mela, about the old African Satyrs and Oegipans, over which Usher would sit dreaming for hours.
1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher1 more example
"No," Shin said, "I don't think that folk who were warned that you were arriving on an ogre would be terrified to learn that an aegipan was part of the group also. Though I'm flattered that you'd consider such a possibility."
2007, David Drake, The Mirror of Worlds
Aegipan2
- human sciencesA mythological being, possibly identical with Pan.
Origin
- Ancient GreekΑἰγίπαν
- LatinAegipān
- Englishaegipan
From Latin Aegipān, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek Αἰγίπαν (Aigípan), from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) + Πάν (Pán, “Pan”).
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Catalan egipà, ègipan
- egipàgoat-like creature resembling a satyr
- ègipangoat-like creature resembling a satyr
French ægipan, égipan
- ægipangoat-like creature resembling a satyr
- égipangoat-like creature resembling a satyr
- égypangoat-like creature resembling a satyr
Portuguese egipã
- egipãgoat-like creature resembling a satyr
Russian эгипан
- эгипан (egipan)goat-like creature resembling a satyr
Spanish egipán
- egipángoat-like creature resembling a satyr
Ukrainian егіпан
- егіпан (ehipan)goat-like creature resembling a satyr
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