anthropophagus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin anthrōpophagus.
Noun[edit]
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, 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[edit]
- Rarer than the plural anthropophagi.
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /an.tʰroːˈpo.pʰa.ɡus/, [än̪t̪ʰroːˈpɔpʰäɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /an.troˈpo.fa.ɡus/, [än̪t̪roˈpɔːfäɡus]
Noun[edit]
anthrōpophagus m (genitive anthrōpophagī); second declension
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- Catalan: antropòfag
- French: anthropophage
- Galician: antropófago
- Italian: antropofago
- Portuguese: antropófago
- Spanish: antropófago
References[edit]
- “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
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