Κένταυρος

Perhaps from κεντέω (kentéō, “I goad, wound”) +‎ ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) either from bull-fighting or from herding. Often linked to the Indo-Iranian etymon of which Sanskrit गन्धर्व (gandharva) is a reflex, in which case substrate borrowing and/or substantial remodeling is indicated.

• Hyphenation: Κέν‧ταυ‧ρος

Κένταυρος • (Kéntauros) m (genitive Κενταύρου); second declension

1. Centaur, a member of a savage race dwelling between Mt. Pelion and Mt. Ossa on the Northeastern coast of Thessaly.
2. centaur

Κένταυρος • (Kéntauros) m (genitive Κενταύρου); second declension

1. (astronomy) the constellation Centaurus

• Κενταυρικός (Kentaurikós)
• Κενταύρειος (Kentaúreios)

• Greek: Κένταυρος (Kéntavros)

• “Κένταυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Κένταυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Κένταυρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Κένταυρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Kulikov, L. (2021) "The Κένταυρος controversy revisited: An old etymological puzzle in a comparative-mythological perspective”, in Giannakis, Georgios K. et al. (eds) Synchrony and diachrony of ancient Greek: Language, linguistics and philology: Essays in honor of Emilio Crespo (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 112), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 163-181. doi: 10.1515/9783110719192-013
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005

From Ancient Greek Κένταυρος (Kéntauros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈcen.da.vɾos/
• Hyphenation: Κέ‧νταυ‧ρος

Κένταυρος • (Kéntavros) m

1. (astronomy) Centaurus (constellation)

   άλφα του Κενταύρου ― álfa tou Kentávrou ― Alpha Centauri

• κένταυρος m (kéntavros, “centaur”)

• Κένταυρος (αστερισμός) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el