"Lycaon" meaning in All languages combined

See Lycaon on Wiktionary

Proper name [Latin]

IPA: /lyˈkaː.oːn/ [Classical-Latin], [lʲʏˈkäːoːn] [Classical-Latin], /liˈka.on/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [liˈkäːon] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λυκάων (Lukáōn). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|Λυκάων}} Ancient Greek Λυκάων (Lukáōn) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Lycāōn/Lycāon<3>|g=m}} Lycāōn m sg (genitive Lycāonis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Lycāōn/Lycāon<3>}} Forms: Lycāōn [canonical, masculine, singular], Lycāonis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Lycāōn [nominative, singular], Lycāonis [genitive, singular], Lycāonī [dative, singular], Lycāonem [accusative, singular], Lycāone [ablative, singular], Lycāōn [singular, vocative]
  1. (Greek mythology) A king of Arcadia turned into a wolf by Zeus Tags: Greek, declension-3 Categories (topical): Greek mythology Derived forms: Lycāōnius, Lycāōnis

Proper name [Translingual]

Etymology: New Latin, from Ancient Greek Λυκάων (Lukáōn, “Lycaon”) the mythological king of Arcadia was transformed into a wolf by Zeus, λυκάων (lukáōn, “wolves”), from λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “werewolf”). Etymology templates: {{der|mul|NL.|-}} New Latin, {{der|mul|grc|Λυκάων||Lycaon}} Ancient Greek Λυκάων (Lukáōn, “Lycaon”) Head templates: {{head|mul|proper noun|||g=m|g2=|head=Lycaon|nogendercat=1}} Lycaon m
  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Canidae – an African wild dog, a hyena-like canid, and its extinct relatives. Tags: masculine Hyponyms (genus): Lycaon pictus (english: sole extant species), † Lycaon sekowei (english: an extinct species)
    Sense id: en-Lycaon-mul-name-uA1CEb0l Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Translingual entries with incorrect language header, Taxonomic names (genus) Hypernyms (genus): Eukaryota (english: superkingdom), Animalia (english: kingdom), Bilateria (english: subkingdom), Deuterostomia (english: infrakingdom), Chordata (english: phylum), Vertebrata (english: subphylum), Gnathostomata (english: infraphylum), Tetrapoda (english: superclass), Mammalia [class], Theria – supercohort, Eutheria (english: infraclass), Carnivora (english: order), Caniformia (english: suborder), Canidae (english: family), Caninae (english: subfamily), Canini (english: tribe), Canina (english: subtribe)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.