centaur

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.tɔː/
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• General-American: /ˈsɛn.tɔɹ/
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• General-American: /ˈsɛn.tɑɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
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From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sentour — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Arabic: قَنْطُور (qanṭūr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Aramaic: ܣܘܣܝ ܒܪܢܫ — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Armenian: կենտավրոս (kentavros) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Armenian: ձիացուլ (jiacʻul) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Armenian: մարդաձի (mardaji) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Asturian: centauru — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Azerbaijani: kentavr — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Belarusian: кентаўр (kjentawr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Bulgarian: кентавър (kentavǎr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Catalan: centaure — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Chinese Cantonese: 人馬 /人马 (jan4 maa5) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Hakka Chinese: 人馬 /人马 (ngìn-mâ) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Chinese Mandarin: 人馬 /人马 (rénmǎ) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Chinese Mandarin: 半人馬 /半人马 (bànrénmǎ) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Czech: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Danish: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Dutch: paardmens — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Dutch: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Dutch: centaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Esperanto: centaŭro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Faroese: rossmaður — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Finnish: kentauri — mythical half-man, half-horse
• French: centaure — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Galician: centauro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• German: Zentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Greek: κένταυρος (kéntavros) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Ancient Greek: κένταυρος (kéntauros) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Hebrew: קֶנְטָאוּר (kentaur) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Hindi: सेंटूर (sẽṭūr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Hungarian: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Ido: centauro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Irish: ceinteár — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Italian: centauro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Japanese: ケンタウロス (Kentaurosu) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Japanese: 人馬 (jinba) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Korean: 켄타우로스 (kentauroseu) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Korean: 인마 (inma) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Latin: centaurus — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Lithuanian: kentauras — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Macedonian: кента́вр (kentávr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Macedonian: ке́нтаур (kéntaur) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Malay: sentora — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Malay: sentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Marathi: सेंटॉर (seṇṭŏr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Norwegian Bokmål: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Polish: centaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Portuguese: centauro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Russian: кента́вр (kentávr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Russian: китовра́с (kitovrás) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Serbo-Croatian: кентаур — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Serbo-Croatian: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Slovak: centaurus — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Slovak: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Slovak: kentaurus — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Slovene: kentaver — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Slovene: Kentaver — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Spanish: centauro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Swahili: kentauro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Swedish: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Tagalog: sentawro — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Turkish: kentaur — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Turkish: kentauroi — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Turkish: at adam — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Turkish: aryunt — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Turkish: eryunt — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Turkish: yaryunt — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Ukrainian: кента́вр (kentávr) — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Vietnamese: nhân mã — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Volapük: käntor — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Welsh: dynfarch — mythical half-man, half-horse
• Bulgarian: Кентавър (Kentavǎr) — astronomy
• Chinese Mandarin: 半人馬座 /半人马座 (bànrénmǎzuò) — astronomy
• Czech: Kentaur — astronomy
• Czech: souhvězdí Kentaura — astronomy
• Dutch: Centaur — astronomy
• French: Centaure — astronomy
• Hungarian: Kentaur — astronomy
• Italian: centauro — astronomy
• Japanese: ケンタウルス (Kentaurusu) — astronomy
• Japanese: ケンタウロス (Kentaurosu) — astronomy
• Japanese: ケンタウルス族 (Kentaurusu-zoku) — astronomy
• Macedonian: Ке́нтаур (Kéntaur) — astronomy