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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

  • ὁ Τίμων σου ‐ περὶ τοῦ κυνὸσ τοῦ θαλαττίου ἱστορῶν γράφει καὶ ταῦτα ἀλλ’ οὐ πολλοὶ ἴσασι βροτῶν τόδε θεῖον ἔδεσμα οὐδ’ ἔσθειν ἐθέλουσιν, ὅσοι κεπφαττελεβώδη ψυχὴν κέκτηνται θνητῶν εἰσὶν τ’ ἀπόπληκτοι, ὡσ ἀνθρωποφάγου τοῦ θηρίου ὄντοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 56 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ πολλοὶ ἴσασι βροτῶν τόδε θεῖον ἔδεσμα οὐδ’ ἔσθειν ἐθέλουσιν, ὅσοι κεπφαττελεβώδη ψυχὴν κέκτηνται θνητῶν εἰσὶν τ’ ἀπόπληκτοι ὡσ ἀνθρωποφάγου τοῦ θηρίου ὄντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 85 3:2)

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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