anthropophagi
anthropophagi is the plural of anthropophagus.
Meaning of anthropophagus
Noun
anthropophagus (plural anthropophagi)
- A man-eater; a cannibal.
- 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...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
Forms of anthropophagi
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Origin of anthropophagi
From Latin anthrōpophagī, the plural of anthrōpophagus, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos, “man-eating”). First attested in 1581, as an ethnonym. Use of the singular anthropophagus is rare.
Words formed from anthropophagi
Questions about anthropophagi
- What is anthropophagi the plural of?
- Anthropophagi is the plural of anthropophagus.
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