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Webster 1913 Edition

(mĭn′ō̍-ta̤r)

Noun.

[L.

Minotaurus

, Gr.

Μινώταυρος

;

Μίνος

, the husband of

Pasiphae

ταῦροσ

a bull, the

Minotaur

being the offspring of

Pasiphae

and a bull: cf. F.

minotaure

(Class. Myth.)

A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by

Daedalus

in Crete.

Noun.

[L.. minotaurus; from man, which must have been in early ages a Latin word, and taurus, a bull.]

A fabled monster, half man and half bull.