Lycaon

From Latin Lycāōn, 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”).

Lycaon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Canidae – an African wild dog, a hyena-like canid, and its extinct relatives.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Caniformia – suborder; Canidae – family; Caninae – subfamily; Canini – tribe; Canina – subtribe

• (genus): Lycaon pictus – sole extant species; †Lycaon sekowei – selected extinct species

• Japanese: リカオン (rikaon)
• Korean: 리카온 (rikaon)

• Lycaon (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lycaon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Lycaon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Lycaon in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Lycaon at Animal Diversity Web
• Lycaon at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Lycaon at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• “Lycaon”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
• “Lycaon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Lycaon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λυκάων (Lukáōn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [lyˈkaː.oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [liˈkaː.on]

Lycāōn m sg (genitive Lycāonis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) A king of Arcadia turned into a wolf by Zeus

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Lycāōnius
• Lycāōnis

• “Lycaon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Lycaon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.