different between centaur vs centaury

English

Alternative forms

• (astronomy): Centaur

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n'tô(r), IPA^(key): /?s?nt??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?nt??(?)
• (US, Canada, also) IPA^(key): /?s?nt??/
• Hyphenation: cen?taur

Noun

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.

Translations

See also

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

Further reading

• Centaur (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• near cut, traunce, uncrate, untrace

Dutch

Alternative forms

• kentaur

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n?t?u??r/, /?k?n?t?u??r/
• Hyphenation: cen?taur

Noun

centaur m (plural centauren, diminutive centaurtje n)

1. centaur

   Synonyms: menspaard, paardmens

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin centaurus

Noun

centaur m (plural centauri)

1. centaur

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• centaurea

Etymology

From Middle English centaure, from Old English centaurie, from Medieval Latin centaur?a, centauria, from Latin centaur?um, centaurion, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from ????????? (kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?nt????/, /?s?nt???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?nt??i/

Noun

centaury (countable and uncountable, plural centauries)

1. Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
   1. Centaurium, sensu stricto
   2. Gyrandra, a genus in Gentianaceae, formerly included in Centaurium, with species commonly called centaury
   3. Schenkia, a genus in Gentianaceae, formerly included in Centaurium, with species commonly called centaury
   4. Zeltnera, a New World genus in Gentianaceae, formerly included in Centaurium, with species commonly called centaury
2. Any of diverse other plants:
   1. Centaurea, a genus in the Asteraceae containing species sometimes called centaury
   2. Cheirolophus crassifolius, a species in the Asteraceae commonly known as Maltese centaury
   3. Sabatia, a New World genus in the Gentianaceae containing species sometimes called centaury

Translations

Further reading

• centaury on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cyanuret