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virlupus.

a man-wolf, a werewolf, a lycanthrope

8 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈwɪr.ɫʊ.pʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈvir.lu.pus]
  1. a man-wolf, a werewolf, a lycanthrope

    Medieval-Latin · declension-2 · masculine
Where this word comes from

From vir (“man”) + lupus (“wolf”), a calque of Old English werewulf, which it translates in the Consiliatio Cnuti (a twelfth-century Latin translation of Cnut’s laws).

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