centaur

• Centaur

From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɔɹ/, /ˈsɛn.tɑɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: cen‧taur

centaur (plural centaurs)

1. (Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.

   Synonym: hippocentaur

2. (astronomy, also capitalized) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
3. (chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
   • 2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 159:

     This was not Kasparov's approach. Instead of rejecting the machines, he returned the year after his defeat to Deep Blue with a different kind of chess, which he called ‘Advanced Chess’. Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.

4. (by extension, artificial intelligence) A human and an AI who work together.
   • 2023 November 11, John Burn-Murdoch, “Generative AI and white-collar jobs: reasons to be wary”, in FT Weekend, The FT View, page 8:

     The first—termed “cyborgs” by the authors—intertwined with the AI, moulding, checking and refining its responses, while the second—“centaurs”—divided labour, handing off more AI-suited subtasks while focussing on their own areas of expertise.

   • 2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Programming has not yet gone the way of chess. But the centaurs have arrived. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing.

(mythical creature):

• faun, hippotaur, horseman, minotaur, satyr

• Centaur (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• near cut, traunce, uncrate, untrace

• kentaur

Ultimately from Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnˌtɑu̯ər/, /ˈkɛnˌtɑu̯ər/

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• Hyphenation: cen‧taur

centaur m (plural centauren, diminutive centaurtje n)

1. centaur

   Synonyms: menspaard, paardmens

Learned borrowing from Latin centaurus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛn.tawr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntawr
• Syllabification: cen‧taur
• Homophone: Centaur

centaur m animal

1. (Greek mythology) centaur (mythical half-man, half-horse)

• centaur in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• centaur in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin centaurus.

centaur m (plural centauri)

1. centaur