Definitions
(classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
Word origin
From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).
Used in a sentence
“Programming has not yet gone the way of chess. But the centaurs have arrived. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing.”
“A centaur goes in circles if the human half doesn’t know what it’s doing. That’s where the panic over pedagogy comes in.”
“The Centaure, the horn'd goatfiſh Capricorne, The ſnake-heard [sic] Gorgon, and fierce Sagittar.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Half-horse figure”7 letters
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