Werewolf vs. Lycanthrope — What's the Difference?

In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, "man-wolf"), or occasionally lycanthrope (Greek: λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, "wolf-human"), is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf) with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon. Early sources for belief in this ability or affliction, called lycanthropy , are Petronius (27–66) and Gervase of Tilbury (1150–1228).

A werewolf.

A person believed to have been transformed into a wolf or to be capable of assuming the form of a wolf.

A person affected with lycanthropy.

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon. Category:en:Horror

A werewolf

A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.

More generally, any sort of were-creature.

A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf

A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

One affected with lycanthropy.

A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf