Satʹire (2 syl.)
.Scaliger’s derivation of this word from satyr is untenable. It is from satʹura (full of variety), satʹura lanx, a hotchpotch or olla podrida. As maxʹumus, optuʹmus, etc., became maximus, optimus, so “satura” became satʹira. (See Dryden’s Dedication prefixed to his Satires.)
Father of French satire. Mathurin Regnier (1573–1613).