The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλυκάνθρωπος
- Latin · borrowed fromlycanthrōpus
- English todaylycanthrope
From Latin lycanthrōpus, from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos) – a compound of λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”). By surface analysis, lyc- + -anthrope.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.