999英语网 单词

anthropophagy的意思

anthropophagy

英 [,nθr'pfd] 美 [,nθr'pɑfdi]
  • n. 食人

anthropophagy

英文词源


anthropophagy (n.)
"cannibalism," 1630s, from French anthropophagie, from Greek anthropophagia "an eating of men," from anthropophagos "man-eating; a man-eater," from anthropo- + stem of phagein "to eat" (see -phagous). Related: Anthropophagic; anthropophagism.