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Latin

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Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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virlupus m (genitive virlupī); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) a man-wolf, a werewolf, a lycanthrope

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

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