anthropophagi

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin anthrōpophagī, the plural of anthrōpophagus, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos, man-eating). English since 1581 (as an ethnonym). Use of the singular anthropophagus is rare.

Noun

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anthropophagi

  1. plural of anthropophagus
    • 1581, B. Gilpin, A godly sermon preached in the court at Greenwich:
      Histories make mention of a people called Anthropophagi, eaters of men.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. [] (First Quarto), London: [] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, [], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 13:
      It was my hent to ſpeake, ſuch was the proceſſe:
      And of the Cannibals, that each other eate;
      The Anthropophagie, and men whoſe heads
      Doe grow beneath their ſhoulders: []
    • 1837, J. D. Lang, An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, I. 386:
      A poor New Zealander, whose forefathers had from time immemorial been anthropophagi.

Alternative forms

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

Derived terms

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Latin

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Noun

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anthrōpophagī

  1. inflection of anthrōpophagus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

References

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