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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Theramorphs covers humans with beast-like features. Centaur irself is a generic term. The proper term for the traditional half man half horse centaur is hippocentaur. There were many types of centaur according to which animal was blended with a human.
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I don't think thera- is the proper combining form. The ancient Greek root is ther, which is masculine, and the combining stem looks to be thero-. Or therio-, from therion, which usually refers to a small animal of some kind, apparently.