anthropophagi

American  

[an-thruh-pof-uh-jahy, -gahy] / ˌæn θrəˈpɒf əˌdʒaɪ, -ˌgaɪ /

plural noun

1. eaters of human flesh; cannibals.

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anthropophagi British  

/ ˌænθrəˈpɒfəˌɡaɪ /

plural noun

1. cannibals

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Etymology

Origin of anthropophagi

1545–55; < Latin, plural of anthrōpophagus cannibal < Greek anthrōpophágos man-eating. See anthropo-, -phage, -phagous

Example Sentences

The book mostly takes place in and around the Vorrh, an uncharted and unknowable forest in Africa filled with John of Mandeville’s anthropophagi and other unknown monsters.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2015

According to other accounts Singhala was originally occupied by Rakshasas or Rakshas, "demons who devour men," and "beings to be feared," monstrous cannibals or anthropophagi, the terror of the shipwrecked mariner.

From A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline by Faxian, ca. 337-422

Ptolemy's anthropophagi may perhaps be referred to the smaller islands.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

Are they anthropophagi, or are they of a friendly disposition?

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

This classical friend also says that the ladies, as viewed at present with their bonnets hanging behind them, look like female anthropophagi, or "monsters whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders."

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various