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語源

Latin semi-, 'half', + taurus, 'bull'.

名詞

semitaur (plural semitaurs)

1. A mythical beast, half man, half bull.
   • 1592, Nicholas Breton, The pilgrimage to paradise, ioyned with the Countesse of Penbrookes loue, compiled in verse by Nicholas Breton Gentleman, Ioseph Barnes, page 8:

     Some semitawres, and some more halfe a beare
     Other halfe swine deepe wallowing in the miers.

参照

• “semitaur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• muriates, seriatum