loup-garou

Borrowed from French loup-garou

• IPA^(key): /ˌlu.ɡəˈɹuː/

loup-garou (plural loup-garous)

1. A werewolf.
   • Brinton

     The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.

From Old French leu garoul, a pleonastic compound of leu (“wolf”) + garoul (“werewolf”); the latter from garulf, from Frankish *wariwulf, from Proto-Germanic *werawulfaz.

• IPA^(key): /lu.ɡa.ʁu/

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loup-garou m (plural loups-garous)

1. werewolf

• → English: loup-garou

• “loup-garou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).