anthropophagi
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English
Etymology
From Latin anthrōpophagī, the plural of anthrōpophagus, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos, “man-eating”). First attested in 1581, as an ethnonym. Use of the singular anthropophagus is rare.
Noun
anthropophagi
- plural of anthropophagus
- 1581, B. Gilpin, A godly sermon preached in the court at Greenwich:
- Histories make mention of a people called Anthropophagi, eaters of men.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. (First Quarto), London: N O for Thomas Walkley, , published 1622, →OCLC, , page 13:
- It was my hent to ſpeake, ſuch was the proceſſe:
And of the Cannibals, that each other eate;
The Anthropophagie, and men whoſe heads
Doe grow beneath their ſhoulders: […]
- 1837, J. D. Lang, An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, I. 386:
- A poor New Zealander, whose forefathers had from time immemorial been anthropophagi.
Alternative forms
- Anthropophagi (capitalized as the name of a supposed people of man-eaters in ancient ethnography)
Derived terms
- anthropophagous (adjective)
Latin
Noun
anthrōpophagī
- inflection of anthrōpophagus:
References
- “anthropophagi”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers