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ἀνθρωποφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνθρωποφάγος ἀνθρωποφάγη ἀνθρωποφάγον

Structure: ἀνθρωποφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fagei=n

Sense

  1. man eating

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • περὶ ἧσ οὐδὲν ἔχομεν λέγειν σαφὲσ πλὴν ὅτι ἀγριώτεροι τῶν Βρεττανῶν ὑπάρχουσιν οἱ κατοικοῦντεσ αὐτήν, ἀνθρωποφάγοι τε ὄντεσ καὶ πολυφάγοι, τούσ τε πατέρασ τελευτήσαντασ κατεσθίειν ἐν καλῷ τιθέμενοι καὶ φανερῶσ μίσγεσθαι ταῖσ τε ἄλλαισ γυναιξὶ καὶ μητράσι καὶ ἀδελφαῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 5 8:3)

Synonyms

  1. man eating

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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