tragelaphn.

Brit.

/ˈtradʒəlɑːf/,

/ˈtradʒəlaf/, U.S.

/ˈtrædʒəˌlæf/

Forms:

α. Middle English tragelaphum, Middle English traielaphum, Middle English tregelafun, Middle English–1800s tragelaphus, 1600s tragelaphis, 1600s tragelaphos, 1800s tragelephus.

β. 1500s– tragelaph.

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

Etymology: < classical Latin tragelaphus a kind of wild goat or antelope (Pliny; adopted as a genus name in scientific Latin: H. M. D. de Blainville 1816, in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomathique Paris 75) < ancient Greek τραγέλαϕος a fabulous or fictitious beast compounded of a goat and a stag, in Hellenistic Greek also a kind of wild goat or antelope (Septuagint) < τράγος he-goat (see tragus n.) + ἔλαϕος deer (see elaphine adj.). With sense 1a compare Middle French tragelaphe, French tragélaphe (1530).In forms tragelaphum, traielaphum, tregelafun after the Latin accusative singular tragelaphum.

†a. A kind of deer or antelope that has some features resembling those of a goat; (also) a kind of wild goat that has some features resembling those of a deer or antelope. Obsolete.Described by Pliny ( Naturalis historia 8) as a kind of bearded stag (cf. quot. 1601), and later variously interpreted. Later also interpreted as a mythical creature (see sense 1b).Cf. goat-hart n. at goat n. and adj. Compounds 3a, deer-goat n. at deer n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > unspecified types

tragelapha1382

catoblepasa1398

troglodyte1661

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xiv. 5 Traielaphum [a1425 Corpus Oxf. tragelaphum; a1425 L.V. tregelafun; L. tragelaphum]..is a beste in part liic an hert in part liic a got.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ci. 1252 Tragelaphus is ycleped ircoceruus also and haþ þat name tragelaphus of trages þat is ‘a goot bukke’ and elephos þat is ‘an hert’.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ci. 1252 Tragelaphus..ben ycleped tragelaphi among þe Grees. And some ben of þe kynde of þe hert.

?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. i iii/1 A Beste is tragelaphus & lyke an hert & it hath a berd lyke a gote.

1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus Worthie Work xxx. sig. O.iii^v In maner of the same shape [as harts] are those which the Greekes call Tragelaphes [margin Gotebucks; L. tragelaphos],..sauing that they haue long haire on their shoulders, and long rough beards vnder their chynnes.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxxiii. 214 Of the same kind [sc. as a deer] is the Goat-hart, and differing onely in the beard and long shag about the shoulders, which they call Tragelaphis [Fr. Tragelaphes; L. tragelaphon]: and this breedeth no where but about the river Phasis.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 118 There is another kind..like a Deere... Pliny affirmeth that they are found about the riuer Phasis, in Arabia and Arachotæ,..a Citty of India..which [beast] the Græcians call Tragelaphos, and the Germans ein Brandhirse... There is another Tragelaphus... It wanteth a beard, and the Haire thereof resembleth an Ibex-goate..the hornes..like a Goats, but more crooked..which he neuer looseth.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tragelaph (tragelaphus), the great and blackish deere called a stone-buck, deer-goat, or goat-hart.

1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant 243 The Fishtâll or Lerwee, is the most timorous Species of the Goat-Kind... [It] seems to be the Tragelaphus of the Antients.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 122 There is in the forests of Germany, a kind of stag, named by the ancients the Tragelaphus, and which the natives call the Bran Deer, or the Brown Deer.

1806 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Feb. 105 The tragelaphus then must have been some curious kind of wild deer, of which Spaarman has shewn, that there are great varieties in Africa.

b. A mythical creature which is part goat and part deer. Also figurative: something composed of incongruous elements. Cf. hircocervus n. Now rare. See note at sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > goat and stag

hircocervus1398

tragelaph1607

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xiv. f. 76 As if he hauing read of a Chimera, Sphynx, Tragelaphus, Centaurus or any the like poeticall fiction, sees the like formed in his phantasies.

1644 D. Featley Sacra Nemesis 60 What Chimera's, Tragelaphusses, and Hippocentaurs dost thou talk of?

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 49 Tragelaphi, Satyrs and Griffins, Cocks and Bulls.

1818 R. P. Knight Anc. Art & Mythol. §114. 88 Among the principal of these symbols [of Diana] is the deer,..which is sometimes blended into one figure with the goat, so as to form a composite fictitious animal called a Tragelephus.

1869 Theol. Rev. Jan. 73 Apollinaris..did not fear to compare the idea of a God-man to the mythical minotaurs and tragelaphs.

1898 C. Thomas Faust I. p. lxiv In went the prose scene just as it stood. The ‘tragelaph’ had to be disposed of!

1933 Greece & Rome 2 127 The resultant verse may be unfamiliar, but it is at any rate not a barbarous hybrid, the hippalectors and tragelaphs justly assailed by a keen critic of old.

1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 117 That minotaurish tragelaph Of whom I've slain the fatted calf Yet here survive—the human half And twin.

2. Zoology. Any of various antelopes of sub-Saharan Africa constituting the genus Tragelaphus, having spiral horns and white stripes or spots, and comprising the kudus, nyalas, bushbucks, and related forms. Now rare.Speke's tragelaph is a former name of the sitatunga, T. spekii.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Tragelaphinae > genus Tragelaphus (tragelaph)

tragelaphine1900

tragelaph1908

1895 Geogr. Jrnl. 6 460 The adult animals, the males at least, seem to retain the usual tragelaph markings.

1908 H. H. Johnston G. Grenfell & Congo II. xxxiii. 923 In Tragelaphs the Congo regions are well endowed.

1934 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 3 93 Speke's Tragelaph, or Situtunga antelope,..was noted by him to be evidently adapted for life among papyrus swamps.

2009 F. Lamarque et al. Human-Wildlife Confl. in Afr. ii. 34 The rinderpest pandemic..caused the deaths of countless wild artiodactyls. Buffalo, tragelaphs, wild suids and wildebeest were most severely affected.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tragelaph
释义	tragelaphn. Brit. /ˈtradʒəlɑːf/, /ˈtradʒəlaf/, U.S. /ˈtrædʒəˌlæf/ Forms: α. Middle English tragelaphum, Middle English traielaphum, Middle English tregelafun, Middle English–1800s tragelaphus, 1600s tragelaphis, 1600s tragelaphos, 1800s tragelephus. β. 1500s– tragelaph. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin tragelaphus. Etymology: < classical Latin tragelaphus a kind of wild goat or antelope (Pliny; adopted as a genus name in scientific Latin: H. M. D. de Blainville 1816, in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomathique Paris 75) < ancient Greek τραγέλαϕος a fabulous or fictitious beast compounded of a goat and a stag, in Hellenistic Greek also a kind of wild goat or antelope (Septuagint) < τράγος he-goat (see tragus n.) + ἔλαϕος deer (see elaphine adj.). With sense 1a compare Middle French tragelaphe, French tragélaphe (1530).In forms tragelaphum, traielaphum, tregelafun after the Latin accusative singular tragelaphum. 1. †a. A kind of deer or antelope that has some features resembling those of a goat; (also) a kind of wild goat that has some features resembling those of a deer or antelope. Obsolete.Described by Pliny ( Naturalis historia 8) as a kind of bearded stag (cf. quot. 1601), and later variously interpreted. Later also interpreted as a mythical creature (see sense 1b).Cf. goat-hart n. at goat n. and adj. Compounds 3a, deer-goat n. at deer n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > unspecified types tragelapha1382 catoblepasa1398 troglodyte1661 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xiv. 5 Traielaphum [a1425 Corpus Oxf. tragelaphum; a1425 L.V. tregelafun; L. tragelaphum]..is a beste in part liic an hert in part liic a got. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ci. 1252 Tragelaphus is ycleped ircoceruus also and haþ þat name tragelaphus of trages þat is ‘a goot bukke’ and elephos þat is ‘an hert’. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ci. 1252 Tragelaphus..ben ycleped tragelaphi among þe Grees. And some ben of þe kynde of þe hert. ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. i iii/1 A Beste is tragelaphus & lyke an hert & it hath a berd lyke a gote. 1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus Worthie Work xxx. sig. O.iii^v In maner of the same shape [as harts] are those which the Greekes call Tragelaphes [margin Gotebucks; L. tragelaphos],..sauing that they haue long haire on their shoulders, and long rough beards vnder their chynnes. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxxiii. 214 Of the same kind [sc. as a deer] is the Goat-hart, and differing onely in the beard and long shag about the shoulders, which they call Tragelaphis [Fr. Tragelaphes; L. tragelaphon]: and this breedeth no where but about the river Phasis. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 118 There is another kind..like a Deere... Pliny affirmeth that they are found about the riuer Phasis, in Arabia and Arachotæ,..a Citty of India..which [beast] the Græcians call Tragelaphos, and the Germans ein Brandhirse... There is another Tragelaphus... It wanteth a beard, and the Haire thereof resembleth an Ibex-goate..the hornes..like a Goats, but more crooked..which he neuer looseth. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tragelaph (tragelaphus), the great and blackish deere called a stone-buck, deer-goat, or goat-hart. 1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant 243 The Fishtâll or Lerwee, is the most timorous Species of the Goat-Kind... [It] seems to be the Tragelaphus of the Antients. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 122 There is in the forests of Germany, a kind of stag, named by the ancients the Tragelaphus, and which the natives call the Bran Deer, or the Brown Deer. 1806 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Feb. 105 The tragelaphus then must have been some curious kind of wild deer, of which Spaarman has shewn, that there are great varieties in Africa. b. A mythical creature which is part goat and part deer. Also figurative: something composed of incongruous elements. Cf. hircocervus n. Now rare. See note at sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > goat and stag hircocervus1398 tragelaph1607 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xiv. f. 76 As if he hauing read of a Chimera, Sphynx, Tragelaphus, Centaurus or any the like poeticall fiction, sees the like formed in his phantasies. 1644 D. Featley Sacra Nemesis 60 What Chimera's, Tragelaphusses, and Hippocentaurs dost thou talk of? a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 49 Tragelaphi, Satyrs and Griffins, Cocks and Bulls. 1818 R. P. Knight Anc. Art & Mythol. §114. 88 Among the principal of these symbols [of Diana] is the deer,..which is sometimes blended into one figure with the goat, so as to form a composite fictitious animal called a Tragelephus. 1869 Theol. Rev. Jan. 73 Apollinaris..did not fear to compare the idea of a God-man to the mythical minotaurs and tragelaphs. 1898 C. Thomas Faust I. p. lxiv In went the prose scene just as it stood. The ‘tragelaph’ had to be disposed of! 1933 Greece & Rome 2 127 The resultant verse may be unfamiliar, but it is at any rate not a barbarous hybrid, the hippalectors and tragelaphs justly assailed by a keen critic of old. 1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 117 That minotaurish tragelaph Of whom I've slain the fatted calf Yet here survive—the human half And twin. 2. Zoology. Any of various antelopes of sub-Saharan Africa constituting the genus Tragelaphus, having spiral horns and white stripes or spots, and comprising the kudus, nyalas, bushbucks, and related forms. Now rare.Speke's tragelaph is a former name of the sitatunga, T. spekii. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Tragelaphinae > genus Tragelaphus (tragelaph) tragelaphine1900 tragelaph1908 1895 Geogr. Jrnl. 6 460 The adult animals, the males at least, seem to retain the usual tragelaph markings. 1908 H. H. Johnston G. Grenfell & Congo II. xxxiii. 923 In Tragelaphs the Congo regions are well endowed. 1934 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 3 93 Speke's Tragelaph, or Situtunga antelope,..was noted by him to be evidently adapted for life among papyrus swamps. 2009 F. Lamarque et al. Human-Wildlife Confl. in Afr. ii. 34 The rinderpest pandemic..caused the deaths of countless wild artiodactyls. Buffalo, tragelaphs, wild suids and wildebeest were most severely affected. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382
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