tragelaphus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tragelaphus. === Noun === tragelaphus (plural tragelaphi) A fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist. ==== Derived terms ==== tragelaphic == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek τραγέλαφος (tragélaphos, “mythical goat-stag”, from τράγος (trágos, “billy goat”) +‎ ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [traˈɡɛ.ɫa.pʰʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [traˈd͡ʒɛː.la.fus] === Noun === tragelaphus m (genitive tragelaphī); second declension goat-stag (a kind of antelope with a beard like a goat) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → English: tragelaph → German: Tragelaph Translingual: Tragelaphus === References === “tragelaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "tragelaphus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “tragelaphus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.