Can anyone think of a sci-fi or fantasy creature such as that described in the subject line? I’m looking for an appropriate name but wouldn’t mind borrowing someone else’s coinage. Alternatively, if anyone can help me with a pseudo-latinate neologism, that would work.
Thanks,
Maxie son of Sammie son of Henry son of Cyrus
I’ve seen them referred to as “boarmen” and similar, which has the disadvantage of sucking. Latin for pig is “sus”; do with that what you will.
Those are called “quillboars”, in the World of Warcraft.
Old-style D&D orcs were very piggy in the face, also.
Given that this particular amalgam isn’t really a classical creature, you’re pretty much free to call them what you will.
Hmmm…Babelfish says that “boar” in Greek is (transliterated) “karpos”. Since “human” is “anthropos”, you could call them karpanthropes. “Swine” as a general term is “choiros”, so you could also make them choiranthropes.
There’s always the classic SF version:
Gamorrean
The movie Deathstalker had a warrior character who was a huge, muscular guy with a pig head. Very nicely done, too … much better than the Gomorreans.
One shows up in Time Bandits, IIRC, but he’s the victim of a spell and not a particular species.
Okay, so here are my choices thus far:
Karpanthropes
Choiranthropes
Boarmen
Swinemen
Gamorrans
and, one last I found myself, Bajie.
Gamorrans automatically out; I hope to sell this story, and I’m so certain that Lucasfilm has a trademark on Gamorrans I don’t see the point in considering it. Now, give that this will be a villainous race , which of the remaining names sounds best?
Just wondering,
Maxie son of Sammie son of Henry son of Cyrus
I’d lose all the -anthropes because that suffix is typically used for creatures that turn from man into the creature in question and not a composite form. The most famous being lycanthropes, which are men who turn into wolves (aka werewolves). They are also kind of scholarly names that just don’t work right for what average people would call beasties.
Also I’d avoid the really obnoxious fantasy RPG habit of adding -taur to the end of the word as if it meant half man, half the other thing like with a minotaur, because that’s just plain wrong. Taur means bull. So these idjits come up with things like Leotaur as if it were a lion-headed person, when that’d really mean lion-bull. (And if you are wondering about what Centaur would mean then, some of the early pottery illustrations were more bull-like than horse-like, though some people have convinced themselves it comes from a different root word.)
You’d want something more like what real people would say. I think some game somewhere called em “Tuskers,” which isn’t so bad if they have tusks. If you’re OK going somewhat tongue in cheek, they could be “pig-headed fools” or “crushing boars.”
If it were me I’d just call em Orcs… or Porcs/Phorcs if you were so inclined. 
If I recall aright, Minotaur means “bull of Minos” (Minos being the Cretan king whose wife came down the unfortunate case of bovineroticism), so I agree. And you’re probably right about “-lanthropes,” too. Right now I’m leaning towards “bajie,” which I’ll use sparingly along with an remark that it means “Pigfolk.”
Unless one of you lot has a better idea, natch.
Orcs, if I saw em walking down the street.
Miss Piggy’s boytoys, otherwise. (Remember that Dragon Magazine issue?) 
In D&D terms, a lycanthrope is any species of animal/humanoid hybrid, not just werewolves. There are also werecrocodiles, wereboars, weretigers, etc. Lycanthropy is actually a template that can be applied to any humanoid and animal combination.
Wikipedia suggests that a more appropriate term would be therianthropy, deriving from:
A tauric creature, in D&D terms, is another template applicable to any humanoid/animal hybrid, but that resembles a centaur (torso, arms and head of a humanoid and a lower half of an animal).
Actually, those are called Wemics 
In either case, I don’t think either fits the OP’s description as it isn’t a shapeshifting beast, nor does it have the lower quadripedal half of an animal.
Some other words to consider:
Suidae
Bacon!
Warthog
Ungulate
Sus
Artiodactyla
Shoat (a young pig between 100-180 lbs)
Gomorrean sounds too much like either a tribe in the time of Conan, or people with chronic VD.
Not that those are mutually exclusive by any means.
Zhu Baijie is a particular character in “Journey to the West”, which is a Chinese classic… it literally translates to “Pig Eight Restraints”. Ba Jie by itself, therefore, does not mean what you think it means. 
Just call me Vizzini.
Actually I knew that already, as I spent twenty-seven unfruitful but interesting minutes reading wikis & other online articles about it. But it has the virtue of beng inspecific yet suggestive, and not impossible to pronounce, and I think it’s a reasonable allusion.
Which is nto to say I won’t change my mind.
Such a creature was in the “Monsters” ep “Bed and Boar.”
I know that “pigotaur” is shamelessly derivative, but it’s what I thought of immediately.
I like the name Bajie, sounds cool. Pigfolk sounds like a derogatory slang for them.
How about a “Mariah Carey”?
I’ve just finished a draft of the part of story in which the swine-human hybrids are described, and the (non-human) character doing the character first calls them “Bajie,” then, realizing his human listeners cant possibly know that world, translates it as “Hogfolk.”