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Significatio vocis semivir | Babel Free

Nomen CEFR B1
[ˈseː.mɪ.wɪr]

Definitiones

  1. a half-man, half man and half beast, semihomo, e.g., the centaur Chiron
  2. a half-man in a derogatory sense of seeming effeminate or unmanly
  3. castrated man, eunuch
  4. hermaphrodite

Aequivalentia

Exempla

Nocte minus quārtā prōmet sua sīdera Chīrōn”

[One] less [than] the fourth night, Chiron will bring forth his stars: a half-man, and joined with the body of a tawny horse. (See: Centaur; Chiron; Centaurus.)

““Et nunc ille Paris cum sēmivirō comitātū, Maeoniā mentum mitrā crīnemque madentem subnexus, raptō potītur …. “And now, that [other] Paris – with his troupe of half-men, and his pomaded hair in a Maeonian turban tied under his chin – holds tight what he has stolen [from me].””

(As Paris took Helen, Aeneas has taken Dido; and so a jealous King Iarbas says that the outsiders’ appearance is unmanly, and perhaps implies that they could be eunuchs.)

Gradus CEFR

B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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