anthropophagus
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!
Usage notes
- Rarer than the plural anthropophagi.
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [an.tʰroːˈpɔ.pʰa.ɡʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [an̪.t̪roˈpɔː.fa.ɡus]
Noun
anthrōpophagus m (genitive anthrōpophagī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- Catalan: antropòfag
- French: anthropophage
- Galician: antropófago
- Italian: antropofago
- Portuguese: antropófago
- Romanian: antropofag
- 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016