satire

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.

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.

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.