anthropophagi

American  

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

plural noun

singular

anthropophagus

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

I found myself, in a word, to be fed up like a prisoner in a camp of anthropophagi, and honoured like the sacrificial bull.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Yes," he replied, "and beyond the Delectable Mountains, on the far slope, lies Prester John's Kingdom, and there dwell anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.

From Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Matthews, Brander

Most ferocious are those new anthropophagi, who live on human flesh, Caribs or cannibals as they are called.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus

Absorbed in his theme, and forgetting her inability to follow him, Moffatt launched out on an epic recital of plot and counterplot, and she hung, a new Desdemona, on his conflict with the new anthropophagi.

From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith