satyrisk

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UK/ˈsatɪɹɪsk/

noun

A little satyr.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounsatyrisk (plural satyrisks)

plural satyrisks

  1. rareGreek AntiquitiesA little satyr.

    Heron also…mentions Satyrisks with wine-skins.

    1850, John Leitch (translator), Karl Otfried Müller (author), Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (editor of the German second edition), Ancient Art and Its Remains; or, A Manual of the Archæology of Art, § 386, page 500

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekσατυρίσκος
  2. Englishsatyrisk

From the Ancient Greek σατυρίσκος (saturískos), the diminutive form of σάτῠρος (sátŭros, “satyr”).

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Chicago

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