means A creature from Greek mythology with the body of a man and the head of a bull, kept hidden in a labyrinth and fed on sacrificial victims until the hero Theseus killed it.

from From the Greek Minotauros, literally 'the bull of Minos' — Minos being the king of Crete, plus tauros, 'bull' (a cousin of the Latin taurus and the source of words like 'Taurus' the constellation). The name itself records the scandal: the beast was the queen's monstrous child, but it bears the king's name forever. The Greek tauros may trace back to an old Mediterranean word for the animal, shared widely across ancient languages.