satire
mocking criticism
Today this word meansWriting or art that criticizes by mockery.
It sounds like satyr, the half-beast follower of Dionysus, but the etymology is different.
Satire comes from Latin satura — a "dish of mixed things" (lanx satura).
Worth noting
Even in Roman times people wrongly derived it from satyr, and one view holds that this very misunderstanding fixed the spelling as satire. A case of a mistake reshaping the look of a word.