semivir

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

sēmi-vir virī, m

adj, a half-man, man who is half beast: Chiron (a Centaur), O.: bos (the Minotaur), O.: Nessus, O.—An hermaphrodite, O.— A eunuch: ingens (a priest of Cybele), Iu.— Fig., unmanly, womanish, effeminate: cum semiviro comitatu, V.: tam atrocem caedem pertinere ad illos semiviros credere, L.