English

Noun

anthropophagi

1. plural of anthropophagus
   • 1581 "Histories make mention of a people called Anthropophagi, eaters of men." (B. Gilpin, A godly sermon preached in the court at Greenwich)
   • 1837 "A poor New Zealander, whose forefathers had from time immemorial been anthropophagi." (J. D. Lang, An historical and statistical account of New South Wales I. 386)
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, Act 1

     It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;

     And of the Cannibals that each other eat,

     The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads

     Do grow beneath their shoulders.

Alternative forms

• capitalized Anthropophagi, as the name of a supposed people of man-eaters in ancient ethnography.

Derived terms

• Adjective anthropophagous

Latin

Noun

anthrōpophagī

1. nominative plural of anthrōpophagus
2. genitive singular of anthrōpophagus
3. vocative plural of anthrōpophagus

References

• anthropophagi in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers