Faun vs Satyr - What's the difference?
faun | satyr | Synonyms |
(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
(Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.
* Milton
(Roman mythology) A faun.
A lecherous man.
Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae , having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
(obsolete) The orangutan.
(Webster 1913)
Satyr is a synonym of faun.
In roman mythology terms the difference between faun and satyr
is that faun is a woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry while satyr is a faun.faun
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* faune (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* satyrSee also
* ("faun" on Wikipedia)satyr
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* satyre (rare or archaic) * satyrus (rare)Noun
(wikipedia satyr) (en noun)- Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.