werewolf

FREQ #7611

n. 狼人, 豺狼般的人

发音

UK /ˈwɛːwʊlf/
其它
UK /ˈwɪəwʊlf/
US /ˈwɛəɹwʊlf/
US /ˈwɪəɹwʊlf/
US /ˈwɜɹwʊlf/

词形变化

werewolves 复数 werewolves

别名

were-wolf wher-wolf warwolf wehrwolf were wolf werwolf

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    狼人

    宗教 神话 哲学

    Near-synonym: dogman

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

wolfman loup-garou lycanthrope

相关短语

werewolf syndrome

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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