Schnaffler, on 30 August 2008 - 10:27 PM, said:
<!--quoteo(post=2470924:date=Aug 30 2008, 11:16 PM:name=Darcy Blake)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Darcy Blake @ Aug 30 2008, 11:16 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2470924"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The term "Lycan" doesn't come from the film Underworld. The term had been used centuries before the release of the film.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Can you show me where, because the only use of the word I can find is in reference to the film and a Jedi from the Star Wars expanded universe?
Deadtotheworld: I am aware of the origins of "Lycan" from Lycanthropy thanks.
Thought you guys might enjoy this from an
View: Etomological Dictionary that is from the 1730's (kinda cool):
All the misspelling are intentional.
A LYCHNO'BITE [Greek-a candle and lite] [1.] a night-walker ; [2.] one, who, instead of the day, uses the night, and lives as it were by candle-light ; [3.] one that turns day into night, and night into day.
LYCI'SCA [Greek] [1.] a dog engendered of a wolf and a b**** ; [2.] a wolf-dog, a shepherd'd-dog.
LYCO'CTONON [Greek] Wolf's-bane.
LYCOPO'DIUM [Wolf's-foot] the herb Wolf's-claw.
LYCO'PSIS [Greek] the herb Garden Buglofs or Wolf's-tongue.
Lycon was also a philosopher and is mentioned in that book under the term
philosophy.