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Latin
Etymology
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
Noun
virlupus m (genitive virlupī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) a man-wolf, a werewolf, a lycanthrope
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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