English

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.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποϕάγος ‎(anthrōpoϕágos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an.tʰroːˈpo.pʰa.ɡus/, [an.tʰroːˈpɔ.pʰa.ɡʊs]

Noun

anthrōpophagus m ‎(genitive anthrōpophagī); second declension

1. cannibal, man-eater.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• anthropophagus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “anthropophagus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• anthropophagus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016