satire
SA-tyre · noun
Origin
Satire comes from Middle French satire, from Old French, from Latin satira, an alteration of earlier satura, which came from the phrase lanx satura, meaning 'full dish' — a dish heaped with different kinds of food.
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Journey
The Latin form satira was reshaped under the influence of the Greek word satyros ('satyr'), based on the mistaken idea that it was connected to satyr drama — a link that turned out not to be true.
Related words
Its accidental cousin-by-confusion is 'satyr,' the mythological woodland creature, though the two words are not actually related despite the Latin spelling shift toward it.