centaur

• (astronomy): Centaur

From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

• enPR: sĕn'tô(r), IPA^(key): /ˈsɛntɔː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
• (US, Canada, also) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛntɑɹ/
• Hyphenation: cen‧taur

centaur (plural centaurs)

1. (Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

   Synonym: hippocentaur

2. (astronomy, also capitalised) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
3. (chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
   • 2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 159:

     This was not Kasparov's approach. Instead of rejecting the machines, he returned the year after his defeat to Deep Blue with a different kind of chess, which he called ‘Advanced Chess’. Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.

• centaurial
• centaurian
• centauric
• centauroid
• centauress, centaurette
• faun
• ichthyocentaur
• minotaur
• onocentaur
• satyr

• Centaur (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• near cut, traunce, uncrate, untrace

• kentaur

Ultimately from Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnˌtɑu̯ər/, /ˈkɛnˌtɑu̯ər/

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• Hyphenation: cen‧taur

centaur m (plural centauren, diminutive centaurtje n)

1. centaur

   Synonyms: menspaard, paardmens

Borrowed from Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛn.tawr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntawr
• Syllabification: cen‧taur
• Homophone: Centaur

centaur m anim

1. (Greek mythology) centaur (mythical half-man, half-horse)

• centaur in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• centaur in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin centaurus.

centaur m (plural centauri)

1. centaur