cynocephalus

From Latin cynocephalus.

cynocephalus (plural cynocephali)

1. A creature with the head of a dog or jackal and human body.
2. An ape with the head of a dog.

From Ancient Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kunoképhalos), a compound of κύων (kúōn, “dog”) +‎ κέφαλος (képhalos, “head”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ky.nɔˈkɛ.pʰa.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃi.noˈt͡ʃɛː.fa.lus]

cynocephalus m (genitive cynocephalī); second declension

1. An ape with the head of a dog.
2. (mythology) The dog-headed Anubis.

Second-declension noun.

• English: cynocephalus

• “cynocephalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cynocephalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cynocephalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.