semitaur

English

Alternative forms

  • semitaure, semitawre

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

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