Borrowed from Late Latin tragus, from Ancient Greek τράγος (trágos, “he-goat; part of the ear”); with reference to a tuft of hair, likened to a goat’s beard, that may grow on the tragus, especially in older men.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪ.ɡəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪɡəs

tragus (plural tragi)

1. (anatomy) The small piece of thick cartilage on the inner side of the external ear that is immediately in front of and partly closing the ear canal.

• antitragus
• intertragic
• post-tragus
• tragal

• “tragus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “tragus”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Struga, tugras

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τράγος (trágos, “a he-goat”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtra.ɡʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtraː.ɡus]

tragus m (genitive tragī); second declension

1. The goatlike smell of the armpits.
2. A kind of fish.

Second-declension noun.

→ English: tragus

• “tragus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press