Werewolf

A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope (from the Greek λυκάνθρωπος: λύκος, lykos, "wolf", and ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "man"), is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a direwolf living in the wilderness and remote areas of North Aegea and Eurasia.

Names
The word werewolf continues a late Old Aegean wer(e)wulf, a compound of were "adult male human" and wulf "wolf". The term lycanthropy, referring both to the ability to transform oneself into a wolf and to the act of so doing, comes from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος lukánthropos (from λύκος lúkos "wolf" and άνθρωπος, ánthrōpos "human".

In Valois, the term Loup-Garou is used. It comes from the Old Valois leus warous (wolf man), of leus (wolf) and warous (Picard form), mentioned as garwaf, garvalf, garval, itself coming from *wariwulf ou *werwolf (wolf man). This word is very close to the Basic word werewolf. In the 4th century, Valois used the term leul garou. The Valois word loup (previously leu) comes from the latin lupus.