minotaurn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪnətɔː/,

/ˈmɪnətɔː/, U.S.

/ˈmɪnəˌtɔr/

Forms: Old English–Middle English minotaurus, Middle English mynataur, Middle English mynataure, Middle English mynatour, Middle English mynotaur, Middle English mynotawr, Middle English mynotawre, Middle English–1600s minotaure, 1500s–1600s minataure, 1500s–1600s mynotaure, 1500s– minotaur; also Scottish pre-1700 menatair, pre-1700 menataur, pre-1700 minotaurus, pre-1700 mynataur, pre-1700 mynotawr, pre-1700 mynotawre.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Minōtaurus.

Etymology: < classical Latin Minōtaurus ( < ancient Greek Μινώταυρος < Μίνως Minos (see Minoan adj. and n.) + ταῦρος bull: see tauro- comb. form). Compare Middle French Minotaur (15th cent. in an apparently isolated instance), French Minotaure (1671). In sense 3 after French minotaure (J. H. Fabre a1907 in the passage translated in quot. 1918 at sense 3), itself after scientific Latin Minotaurus, former genus name (E. Mulsant & A. Godart 1855, in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon. 2 4).In Old English used with Latin case inflections (compare quot. eOE at sense 1a). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mi·nŏtǭɹ) /ˈmɪnətɔː(r)/. The pronunciation /ˈmʌɪnətɔː/ is recorded in dictionaries from the middle of the 20th cent.

a. Chiefly Greek Mythology. A monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.Originally and chiefly used (in form Minotaur) of the mythical monster resulting from the union of Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos of Crete, and a bull. The Minotaur was confined in a labyrinth and fed with human flesh. It was eventually slain by Theseus, who thus freed Athens from a regular tribute of seven young men and seven young women sent to the monster.

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > miscellaneous

minotaureOE

Tantalusc1369

Aegipan1538

Pandora1581

Briareus1589

Laocoön1601

hippalektryon1822

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. ix. 28 Þa Cretense hæfdon þone grimlecan sige, & ealle þa æðelestan bearn þara Atheniensa hi genoman, & sealdon þæm Minotauro to etanne, þæt wæs healf mon, healf leo.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 5291 Minotaure.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2104 Or ellis torn Mote I [sc. Theseus] be with the Mynotaur [v.rr. Mynataur, mynatour, Mynotawre] to-morwe!

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 887 in Poems (1981) 37 The minotaur, ane monster meruelous.

1584 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Hist. Judith vi. 90 Holophernes dreames of Deuils, and Dæmons dark & dim Medusas, Minotaurs, and Gorgons grim.

1607 T. Tomkis Lingua iv. ii. sig. H3 Like the laborinth, That Dedalus fram'd to inclose the Minotaure.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 117 The Labyrinth of Crete..containing five large squares, communicating by right inflections, terminating in the centre of the middle square, and lodging of the Minotaur.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite i, in Fables 5 High on his pointed Lance his Pennon bore His Cretan Fight, the conquer'd Minotaur.

1839 Southern Literary Messenger Nov. 711/1 We pass over..the race and deeds of the Titans..the exploits of Theseus and the death of the Minotaur.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 251/2 Theseus set out for Crete to deliver Athens from the tribute to the Minotaur.

1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. ix. 289 His eyes, like those of a tired minotaur, traversed her supple body with a gleam of interest.

1986 R. Dawkins Blind Watchmaker (BNC) 60 The player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth..in which he encounters dragons, minotaurs or other mythic adversaries.

1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds vii. 293 Ariadne, who seeks to help her lover, Theseus, is menaced by the Minotaur; the Picassoesque monster is enacted as a young man wearing a bull's head and winding his arms around a heavy yoke.

b. Used allusively.

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1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in Delia sig. L.2 Heere I inclos'd from all the world a sunder, The Minotaure of shame kept for disgrace.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. v. 145 There Minotaurs and vgly Treasons lurke.

1658 W. Chamberlayne Loves Victory ii. 17 Hear him unravel the black clew that led Me into this dark labyrinth of grief, And tell me then where I have ever left Hopes to escape the Minotaure of passions.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 77 But don't give yourself for a meal to a minotaur like Bult.

1900 United Service Mag. Jan. 427 All those who were the hope and future strength of the race were devoured by the Imperial Minotaur [sc. Napoleon] in pursuit of his dream of universal domination.

1939 S. Spender & M. G. Rees tr. G. Büchner Danton's Death i. iv. 42 The people is a Minotaur that must be fed with corpses every week if it is not to eat the Committee alive.

1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party iii. 163 We talk of darkness, labyrinths, Minotaur terrors.

1965 Current Anthropol. 6 457/1 The book's elusive language veils a labyrinth, at the centre of which I would say there are several Minotaurs.

†2. Chiefly Heraldry. A representation of a minotaur. Obsolete.

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > of classical mythology > others

chimera1382

minotaurc1385

Triton1584

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale A. 980 By his baner born is his penoun..which ther was ybete The Mynotaur, which that he wan in Crete.

1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 49 R. beareth azure, a Minotaure d' Argente.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. 337 In a medal inscribed Caleno, the Minotaur is seen.

3. In full minotaur beetle. A black Eurasian dung beetle, Typhaeus typhoeus (family Geotrupidae), which bears three horn-like projections on the thorax (in the male), and is typically found in sandy areas.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle)

sharnbudc1000

dora1450

clock1568

sharn-bug1608

dung beetle1634

grey fly1638

dunghill beetle1658

comb-chafer1712

tumble-turd1754

tumble-dung1775

dung-chafer1805

tumble-bug1805

tumbler1807

bull-comber1813

straddle-bug1839

lamellicorn1842

scarabaeidan1842

shard-beetle1854

watchman1864

scarabaeoid1887

scarabaeid1891

minotaur1918

1918 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Sacred Beetle & Others xi. 183 Remember also the Minotaur, who looks as though he were going to spit his foe with his sheaf of three couched lances.

1968 Oxf. Bk. Insects 180/2 Minotaurs are locally common, mainly in spring and autumn, on sandy heaths as far north as Ayrshire.

1975 G. Evans Life of Beetles iii. 69 This type of co-operation [between the sexes] is well known in the Geotrupidae. In Britain, it is found both in the dor beetle (Geotrupes spp.) and in the minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus).

1993 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & N. Europe (ed. 3) 148 The Minotaur Beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus) prefers rabbit and sheep dung.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	minotaur
释义	minotaurn. Brit. /ˈmʌɪnətɔː/, /ˈmɪnətɔː/, U.S. /ˈmɪnəˌtɔr/ Forms: Old English–Middle English minotaurus, Middle English mynataur, Middle English mynataure, Middle English mynatour, Middle English mynotaur, Middle English mynotawr, Middle English mynotawre, Middle English–1600s minotaure, 1500s–1600s minataure, 1500s–1600s mynotaure, 1500s– minotaur; also Scottish pre-1700 menatair, pre-1700 menataur, pre-1700 minotaurus, pre-1700 mynataur, pre-1700 mynotawr, pre-1700 mynotawre. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Minōtaurus. Etymology: < classical Latin Minōtaurus ( < ancient Greek Μινώταυρος < Μίνως Minos (see Minoan adj. and n.) + ταῦρος bull: see tauro- comb. form). Compare Middle French Minotaur (15th cent. in an apparently isolated instance), French Minotaure (1671). In sense 3 after French minotaure (J. H. Fabre a1907 in the passage translated in quot. 1918 at sense 3), itself after scientific Latin Minotaurus, former genus name (E. Mulsant & A. Godart 1855, in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon. 2 4).In Old English used with Latin case inflections (compare quot. eOE at sense 1a). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mi·nŏtǭɹ) /ˈmɪnətɔː(r)/. The pronunciation /ˈmʌɪnətɔː/ is recorded in dictionaries from the middle of the 20th cent. 1. a. Chiefly Greek Mythology. A monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.Originally and chiefly used (in form Minotaur) of the mythical monster resulting from the union of Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos of Crete, and a bull. The Minotaur was confined in a labyrinth and fed with human flesh. It was eventually slain by Theseus, who thus freed Athens from a regular tribute of seven young men and seven young women sent to the monster. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > miscellaneous minotaureOE Tantalusc1369 Aegipan1538 Pandora1581 Briareus1589 Laocoön1601 hippalektryon1822 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. ix. 28 Þa Cretense hæfdon þone grimlecan sige, & ealle þa æðelestan bearn þara Atheniensa hi genoman, & sealdon þæm Minotauro to etanne, þæt wæs healf mon, healf leo. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 5291 Minotaure. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2104 Or ellis torn Mote I [sc. Theseus] be with the Mynotaur [v.rr. Mynataur, mynatour, Mynotawre] to-morwe! a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 887 in Poems (1981) 37 The minotaur, ane monster meruelous. 1584 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Hist. Judith vi. 90 Holophernes dreames of Deuils, and Dæmons dark & dim Medusas, Minotaurs, and Gorgons grim. 1607 T. Tomkis Lingua iv. ii. sig. H3 Like the laborinth, That Dedalus fram'd to inclose the Minotaure. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 117 The Labyrinth of Crete..containing five large squares, communicating by right inflections, terminating in the centre of the middle square, and lodging of the Minotaur. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite i, in Fables 5 High on his pointed Lance his Pennon bore His Cretan Fight, the conquer'd Minotaur. 1839 Southern Literary Messenger Nov. 711/1 We pass over..the race and deeds of the Titans..the exploits of Theseus and the death of the Minotaur. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 251/2 Theseus set out for Crete to deliver Athens from the tribute to the Minotaur. 1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. ix. 289 His eyes, like those of a tired minotaur, traversed her supple body with a gleam of interest. 1986 R. Dawkins Blind Watchmaker (BNC) 60 The player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth..in which he encounters dragons, minotaurs or other mythic adversaries. 1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds vii. 293 Ariadne, who seeks to help her lover, Theseus, is menaced by the Minotaur; the Picassoesque monster is enacted as a young man wearing a bull's head and winding his arms around a heavy yoke. b. Used allusively. ΚΠ 1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in Delia sig. L.2 Heere I inclos'd from all the world a sunder, The Minotaure of shame kept for disgrace. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. v. 145 There Minotaurs and vgly Treasons lurke. View more context for this quotation 1658 W. Chamberlayne Loves Victory ii. 17 Hear him unravel the black clew that led Me into this dark labyrinth of grief, And tell me then where I have ever left Hopes to escape the Minotaure of passions. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 77 But don't give yourself for a meal to a minotaur like Bult. 1900 United Service Mag. Jan. 427 All those who were the hope and future strength of the race were devoured by the Imperial Minotaur [sc. Napoleon] in pursuit of his dream of universal domination. 1939 S. Spender & M. G. Rees tr. G. Büchner Danton's Death i. iv. 42 The people is a Minotaur that must be fed with corpses every week if it is not to eat the Committee alive. 1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party iii. 163 We talk of darkness, labyrinths, Minotaur terrors. 1965 Current Anthropol. 6 457/1 The book's elusive language veils a labyrinth, at the centre of which I would say there are several Minotaurs. †2. Chiefly Heraldry. A representation of a minotaur. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > of classical mythology > others chimera1382 minotaurc1385 Triton1584 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale A. 980 By his baner born is his penoun..which ther was ybete The Mynotaur, which that he wan in Crete. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 49 R. beareth azure, a Minotaure d' Argente. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. 337 In a medal inscribed Caleno, the Minotaur is seen. 3. In full minotaur beetle. A black Eurasian dung beetle, Typhaeus typhoeus (family Geotrupidae), which bears three horn-like projections on the thorax (in the male), and is typically found in sandy areas. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle) sharnbudc1000 dora1450 clock1568 sharn-bug1608 dung beetle1634 grey fly1638 dunghill beetle1658 comb-chafer1712 tumble-turd1754 tumble-dung1775 dung-chafer1805 tumble-bug1805 tumbler1807 bull-comber1813 straddle-bug1839 lamellicorn1842 scarabaeidan1842 shard-beetle1854 watchman1864 scarabaeoid1887 scarabaeid1891 minotaur1918 1918 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Sacred Beetle & Others xi. 183 Remember also the Minotaur, who looks as though he were going to spit his foe with his sheaf of three couched lances. 1968 Oxf. Bk. Insects 180/2 Minotaurs are locally common, mainly in spring and autumn, on sandy heaths as far north as Ayrshire. 1975 G. Evans Life of Beetles iii. 69 This type of co-operation [between the sexes] is well known in the Geotrupidae. In Britain, it is found both in the dor beetle (Geotrupes spp.) and in the minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus). 1993 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & N. Europe (ed. 3) 148 The Minotaur Beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus) prefers rabbit and sheep dung. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE
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