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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)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ἄλλουσ νενόμικα ἀνθρωποφάγουσ ἰχθῦσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 4:6)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ μεγάλουσ τούτουσ ἅπαντασ νενόμικα ἀνθρωποφάγουσ ἰχθῦσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 92 1:5)

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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