Meanings
- not comparableHaving or relating to feet like those of a goat.
[…] 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 […]
1876 June 29, Frank Carpenter, “Notes of the Wheeler Expedition”, in Forest and Stream, volume 6, number 21, →ISSN, page 336
plural capripeds · alternative capripede
- human sciencesA goat-footed person; a satyr.
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.
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 35
Origin
- Latincapriped-
- Englishcapriped
From Latin capriped-, capripēs.
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