semivir

== Latin == === Etymology === From semi- (“half”) + vir (“man”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈseː.mɪ.wɪr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɛː.mi.vir] === Noun === sēmivir m (genitive sēmivirī); second declension a half-man, half man and half beast, semihomo, e.g., the centaur Chiron (transferred) a half-man in a derogatory sense of seeming effeminate or unmanly castrated man, eunuch hermaphrodite ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -r). === References === “semivir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “semivir”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.