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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

  • Ἀλλὰ οὗτοσ μὲν ὁ χωλὸσ ὅμωσ χρήσιμόσ γε ἐστι τεχνίτησ ὢν ἄριστοσ καὶ κατακεκόσμηκεν ἡμῖν τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην ἔγημε καὶ σπουδάζεται πρὸσ αὐτῆσ, οἱ δὲ σοὶ παῖδεσ ἡ μὲν αὐτῶν ἀρρενικὴ πέρα τοῦ μετρίου καὶ ὄρειοσ, καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον ἐσ τὴν Σκυθίαν ἀπελθοῦσα πάντεσ ἴσασιν οἱᾶ ἐσθίει ξενοκτονοῦσα καὶ μιμουμένη τοὺσ Σκύθασ αὐτοὺσ ἀνθρωποφάγουσ ὄντασ· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:3)
  • ’ τοὺσ γὰρ μεγάλουσ τούτουσ ἅπαντασ νενόμικα ἀνθρωποφάγουσ ἰχθῦσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 57 2:15)
  • ἀνθρωποφάγουσ, πῶσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 57 3:1)
  • 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)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ἄλλουσ νενόμικα ἀνθρωποφάγουσ ἰχθῦσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 4:6)

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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