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tragelaphus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
trage-la-phus
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin tragelaphus.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *terh₁-, tragelaphus

Inflected Forms

tragelaphi (plural)

Derived Forms

tragelaphic

Questions

What does tragelaphus mean?
A fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist.
Where does tragelaphus come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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