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English
Etymology
From Latin anthrōpophagus.
Noun
anthropophagus (plural anthropophagi)
- A man-eater; a cannibal.
1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The World in Clothes”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. , London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, 1st book, page 26:Reader, the heaven-inspired melodious Singer; loftiest Serene Highness; nay thy own amber-locked, snow-and-rose-bloom Maiden, worthy to glide sylphlike almost on air, whom thou lovest, worshippest as a divine Presence, which, indeed, symbolically taken, she is,—has descended, like thyself, from that same hair-mantled, flint-hurling Aboriginal Anthropophagus!
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos).
Pronunciation
Noun
anthrōpophagus m (genitive anthrōpophagī); second declension
- cannibal, man-eater
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “anthropophagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- anthropophagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- anthropophagus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016