horned goat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The constellation and zodiacal sign Capricornus.
Example Sentences
- "Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names."
Etymology
Calque of Latin Capricornus.
Inflected Forms
the Horned Goat (canonical)