anthropophagus

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin. More rare than the plural anthropophagi. Attested in the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's Othello.

[edit] Noun

anthropophagus (plural anthropophagi)

  1. A man-eater, cannibal.
    • 1831, T. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, 1858, p. 23
      That same hair-mantled, flint-hurling Aboriginal Anthropophagus.

[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποϕάγος.

[edit] Noun

anthrōpophagus (genitive anthrōpophagī); m, second declension

  1. cannibal, man-eater.

[edit] Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative anthrōpophagus anthrōpophagī
genitive anthrōpophagī anthrōpophagōrum
dative anthrōpophagō anthrōpophagīs
accusative anthrōpophagum anthrōpophagōs
ablative anthrōpophagō anthrōpophagīs
vocative anthrōpophage anthrōpophagī
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