anthropophagus

English

Etymology

From Latin anthrōpophagus.

Noun

anthropophagus (plural anthropophagi)

1. 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, book first, 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!

Usage notes

• Rarer than the plural anthropophagi.

Related terms

• Androphagi

Anagrams

• phonautographs

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /an.tʰroːˈpo.pʰa.ɡus/, [än̪t̪ʰroːˈpɔpʰäɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an.troˈpo.fa.ɡus/, [än̪t̪roˈpɔːfäɡus]

Noun

anthrōpophagus m (genitive anthrōpophagī); second declension

1. cannibal, man-eater

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	anthrōpophagus	anthrōpophagī
Genitive	anthrōpophagī	anthrōpophagōrum
Dative	anthrōpophagō	anthrōpophagīs
Accusative	anthrōpophagum	anthrōpophagōs
Ablative	anthrōpophagō	anthrōpophagīs
Vocative	anthrōpophage	anthrōpophagī

Descendants

• Catalan: antropòfag
• French: anthropophage
• Galician: antropófago
• Italian: antropofago
• Portuguese: antropófago
• Spanish: antropófago

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^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016