The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΛυκάων“Lycaon”
- English todaylycaon
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Λυκάων (Lukáōn, “Lycaon”) the mythological king of Arcadia who was transformed into a wolf by Zeus, λυκάων (lukáōn, “wolves”), from λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.