different between sagiarious vs centaur

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