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Meaning of "hircocervus" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HIRCOCERVUS

hircocervus  [ˌhɜːkəʊˈsɜːvəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIRCOCERVUS

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Hircocervus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HIRCOCERVUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Hircocervus

The hircocervus or tragelaph, also known as a goat-stag or horse-stag, was a legendary creature imagined to be half-goat, half-stag. In his work De Interpretatione, Aristotle utilized the idea of a fabulous goat-stag to express the philosophical concept of something that is knowable even though it does not really exist. The word hircocervus first appears in the English language in a medieval manuscript dating from 1398. A hircocervus is depicted in a wall-painting called The Trusty Servant, painted by John Hoskins in 1579. dating from the 1580s. It hangs outside the kitchen of Winchester College in Hampshire, England. The author Arthur Cleveland Coxe described "the time-honoured Hircocervus, or picture of 'the Trusty-servant,' which hangs near the kitchen, and which emblematically sets forth those virtues in domestics, of which we Americans know nothing. It is a figure, part man, part porker, part deer, and part donkey; with a padlock on his mouth, and various other symbols in his hands and about his person, the whole signifying a most valuable character.

Definition of hircocervus in the English dictionary

The definition of hircocervus in the dictionary is a fanciful creature that is half goat and half stag, referred to in classical and mediaeval fable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HIRCOCERVUS


acclivous
əˈklaɪvəs
canvas
ˈkænvəs
canvass
ˈkænvəs
clavus
ˈkleɪvəs
Corvus
ˈkɔːvəs
declivous
dɪˈklaɪvəs
favous
ˈfeɪvəs
favus
ˈfeɪvəs
festivous
ˈfɛstɪvəs
fulvous
ˈfʌlvəs
grievous
ˈɡriːvəs
longaevous
lɒnˈdʒiːvəs
longevous
lɒnˈdʒiːvəs
mischievous
ˈmɪstʃɪvəs
naevus
ˈniːvəs
nervous
ˈnɜːvəs
nevus
ˈniːvəs
recidivous
rɪˈsɪdɪvəs
redivivus
ˌrɛdɪˈvaɪvəs
saxicavous
sækˈsɪkəvəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIRCOCERVUS

hirable
hiragana
hirage
Hiram
hircine
hircosity
hire
hire car
hire charges
hire company
hire purchase
hire purchase agreement
hire-purchase
hireable
hiree
hireling
hirer
Hiri Motu
hiring
hiring-fair

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIRCOCERVUS

famous
focus
gorgeous
Jesus
Mauritius
miscellaneous
nous
numerous
plus
previous
religious
ridiculous
serious
status
sus
thus
us
various
versus
virus

Synonyms and antonyms of hircocervus in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hircocervus» into 25 languages

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75 millions of speakers

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75 millions of speakers

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70 millions of speakers

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15 millions of speakers
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10 millions of speakers
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5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hircocervus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIRCOCERVUS»

The term «hircocervus» is used very little and occupies the 164.135 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIRCOCERVUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hircocervus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIRCOCERVUS»

Discover the use of hircocervus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hircocervus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aristotle's Theory of Language and Its Tradition: Texts from ...
Whether absolutely or temporally, that is: either not designating the time, like ' hircocervus non albus', or designating the time, like 'hircocervus currens' or ' hircocervus non currens', 'hircocervus currit' or 'hircocervus non cur- rit'. But Boethius ...
Hans Arens, 1984
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The Organon, or Logical treatises, of Aristotle: With the ...
So also it may be shown that the healthy is an object of science in that it is good, or that hircocervus is an object of opinion, quoad its nonentity,3 or that man is corruptible, so far as he is sensible, for in all super-predications, we ^•^"nnofoz- ...
Aristotle, Porphyry, 1853
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The Organon, or logical treatises: with the introd. of Porphyry
So also it may be shown that the healthy is an object of science in that it is good, or that hircocervus is an object of opinion, quoad its nonentity,3 or that man is corruptible, so far as he is sensible, for in all super-predications, we *«-«otii7cx»5 - ...
Aristoteles, 1853
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The Organon, Or Logical Treatises of Aristotle with the ...
So also it may be shown that the healthy is an object of science in that it is good, or that hircocervus is an object of opinion, quoad its nonentity,“ or that man is corruptible, so far as he is sensible, for in all super-predications, we sgxy'mwi' must ...
‎1853
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The Organon
So also it may be shown that the healthy is an object of science in that it is good, or that hircocervus is an object of opinion, quoad its nonentity,3 or that man is corruptible, so far as he is sensible, for in all super-predications, we J»« oTnTopjD- ...
Aristotle, Porphyry, 1853
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Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia:
secundum1... temporis] i. m. al. man. B 1358 hircocervus...1360 tempus] ARIST., De interpretatione, c. 1 (Transl. Boethii, ed. L. MINIO-PALUELLO, p. 6, 1-2; 16a 16-18: «Hircocervus enim significat aliquid, sed nondum verum vel falsum, si non  ...
Henry (of Ghent), H. A. G. Braakhuis, Girard J. Etzkorn, 2010
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From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again: A Journey in Final ...
28 [“Ce nouvel hircocervus”: actually, the hircocervus was a mythical animal, part goat, part deer.] 29 On an important point Spencer obtained from Darwin a change of vocabulary. He made the observation to Darwin that the expression ...
Etienne Gilson, 2009
8
Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies: Volume One: Studies
species: chimaera, fligax, tragelaphus, and hircocervus.43 Confronted with these bizarre words, Judah again resorts to transliteration; while he got the tragelaphus right,fligax becamefligantis,andthechimaera has transmuted into a cimera (with ...
Resianne Fontaine, Gad Freudenthal, 2013
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Boethius on Mind, Grammar and Logic: A Study of Boethius' ...
A sign (signum) of this is [that]: 'a/ the goat-stag' (hircocervus) signifies something, but it does not yet signify the true or false unless 'to be' or 'not to be' is added, either simply or according to time.81 This is a part of chapter 1 of Peri hermeneias ...
Taki Suto, 2011
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Albert of Saxony's Twenty-Five Disputed Questions on Logic: ...
Et primo de istis nominibus: omnis, nullus, quae dicuntur signa universalia; secundo, de istis nominibus: Antichristus, Adam, etc., quorum significata non sunt ; tertio, de nominibus figmentorum sicut 15 sunt ista: chimaera, hircocervus. 90.
Albertus de Saxonia, Michael James Fitzgerald, 2002

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIRCOCERVUS»

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'Epicrisis' spells trouble for Seattle student
... of West Palm Beach, Fla., who put her hand over her mouth in disbelief when she spelled "hircocervus" (a legendary half-goat, half-stag). «KOMO News, May 09»

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