satyrisk

satyrisk

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsatɪɹɪsk/

Noun

satyrisk (plural satyrisks)

1. (Greek Antiquities, rare) A little satyr.
   • 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:

     Heron also…mentions Satyrisks with wine-skins.

Translations

a little satyr

References

• NED VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed., 1914), part ii (S–Sh), page 128/1, “Satyrisk”
• OED (2nd ed., 1989), “satyrisk”

Anagrams

• syrtakis