werewolf

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛːwʊlf/|/ˈwɪəwʊlf/    美 /ˈwɛəɹwʊlf/|/ˈwɪəɹwʊlf/|/ˈwɜɹwʊlf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.
    — Near-synonym: dogman

词形变化

werewolves plural warwolf alternative,obsolete wehrwolf alternative,archaic were wolf alternative,rare were-wolf alternative werwolf alternative,dated

词源

From Middle English werwolf, from Old English werewulf, from Proto-West Germanic *werawulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wer (“man”) + *wulf (“wolf”). Cognate with Dutch weerwolf, Low German Warwulf, German Werwolf, Danish varulv, Swedish varulv, and even possibly Finnish vironsusi. By surface analysis, were- + wolf.
* Compare French garou in loup-garou; French dialectal gairou, varou (“werewolf”); Medieval Latin gerulphus, garulphus (“werewolf”); all from Germanic, probably Frankish *werawulf.
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