Meaning of "tragelaph" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF TRAGELAPH

tragelaph  [ˈtræɡɪˌlæf]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRAGELAPH

Tragelaph 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 TRAGELAPH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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 tragelaph in the English dictionary

The definition of tragelaph in the dictionary is a mythical animal: a cross between a goat and a stag.

TRANSLATION OF TRAGELAPH

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAGELAPH»

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C.P.E. Bach Studies

compositions of mixed, fantastic, and unbalanced character, such as an antique bronze bull (“a Tragelaph of old and new”) and mismatched architectural “ quotations” assembled into a new building.7 Tragelaphic artifacts, it seems, anticipated ...

Annette Richards, 2006

Goethe's Faust: Its Genesis and Purport

Thus, in writing to Schiller on December 6, 1797, he referred playfully to Faust as a "Tragelaph" — a fabulous animal, half goat, half stag. "Ich werde wohl zunachst an meinen Faust gehen, teils um diesen Tragelaphen los zu werden, teils um ...

Eudo Colecestra Mason, 1967

German Orientalisms

Goethe to Schiller, June 10, 1795: "Here's a tragelaph of the first instance" ( Hierbei ein Tragelaph von der ersten Sorte]. Briefivechsei Schiller Goethe, 1:110. See Birus, "Der 'Orientale' Jean Paul." 157. Schiller to Goethe, June 28, 1796: "I ...

Todd Curtis Kontje, 2004

Mammals of Africa

(2005), the extant members of the genus Tragelaph us can now be placed within a single tree with unusually clear lines of descent and plausible dates for divergences between all species. Furthermore, some fossil tragelaphines can also be ...

Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, 2013

African Affairs: Journal of the Royal African Society

29 3 Mbarara, Sango, Nile. Wild dog -— I Gondokoro. Crocodile 3 — Ankole. Civet cats .. 4 i — Singo. Leo l l — Murjenje. Speke's tragelaph.... — I 1 Kibanda. Hyena .............. . . 1 I Kabula. Ostrich ...................... . . 1 l — Lango. numbers of British ...

‎1905

Journal of the Royal African Society

Topi (Damaliscus) . Serval cat Zebra Buffalo . Gazelles . Lion .... Monkey .. Rhinoceros Roan antelope Bush pig Impala Dik Dik (Modoqua). Oribi Wild dog Crocodile Civet cats Leopard Speke's tragelaph Hyena Ostrich Male. 60 112 55 17 59 2 ...

‎1905

Library of Congress Subject Headings

... and similar headings NT Catharsis French drama (Tragedy) Greek drama ( Tragedy) Italian drama (Tragedy) Lithuanian drama (Tragedy) Tragedy in music Tragicomedy Tragedy in music [ML63] BT Music Program music Tragedy Tragelaph ...

‎1989

Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society

that the Tragelaph does introduce infection to flies not hitherto infected. The importance of the Tragelaph as food for Glossina has heen dwelt upon in my previous reports, and the following figures give further proof of this. •As regards Ngamba ...

Royal Society (Great Britain) Sleeping Sickness Commission, 1914

Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission

that the Tragelaph does introduce infection to flies not hitherto infected. The importance of the Tragelaph as food for Glossina has been dwelt upon in my previous reports, and the following figures give further proof of this. *As regards Ngamba ...

Royal Society (Great Britain). Sleeping Sickness Commission, 1919

The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...

... dhregh trachoma: dher track: tragh tract: tragh tractable: tragh tractate: tragh tractile: tragh traction: tragh trade: dra tradition: do traduce: deuk traduction: deuk tragedian: dheigh N 7 tragedy: aig, ter II, ued tragelaph: aud traghetto: ie tragically: ...

Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAGELAPH»

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250. Geburtstag: Jean Paul war Weltmeister des Ideengewimmels

Wie ein "Tragelaph", ein Mischwesen in Tiergestalt, kam er Goethe vor. "Aus dem Mond" scheint er gefallen zu sein, schrieb Schiller an den Freund. Was sollte ... «DIE WELT, Mar 13»