人間の頭と馬の胴体を持つ古代ギリシャ神話の神で、カホンが最もよく知られている。語源には異説があり、cent, thorn, see centreに由来する可能性がある。 -taur, bull, see Taurus, Taurus.
英語の語源
centaur (n.)
late 14c., from Latin centaurus, from Greek Kentauros, origin disputed. In early Greek literature they were a savage, horse-riding tribe from Thessaly; later they were monsters half horse, half man. The southern constellation of Centaurus is attested in English from 1550s but was known by that name to the Romans and known as a centaur to the Greeks. It has often been confused since classical times with Sagittarius.
例文
1. His face reminded me somehow of a centaur .
彼の顔は私に半人半馬の怪物を思い出させた。
2.'stentor or centaur ，'tis no matter，"answered Gerald，unruffled by his error.
"それが何であれ、それは大丈夫です。"ジェラルドは自分の間違いには気にしないと答えました。The eighth and ninth missions had Centaur boosting the spacecraft into an 80，000-kilometer deep-space orbit.
8回目と9回目はセントールを利用して8万キロの深層宇宙軌道に人を送った。
4.Sagittarius，the centaur ，merges beast and man a unique creature.
人馬座、ギリシャ神話の半人半馬は、獣と人が結合した独特の生物である。
5.No wonder he had soon been hustled away to centaur school.