(also Satyr) in classical mythology, a woodland god associated with drunken revelry and lustfulness, represented as. In Greek representations, the satyr was a man with certain attributes of a horse or goat a horse's ears and tail, and in Roman representations he was a man with the tail, legs, and horns of a goat
a lecherous man, esp one affected by satyriasis
any of various butterflies, most of which have brown wings with small eyespots: genus Satyrus
satyric /səʹtirik/ adj
[Middle English via French and Latin from Greek satyros]