A person who practices anthropophagy; someone who eats human flesh.
From anthropophagus + -ist (one who practices). Created in the 17th-19th centuries for use in anthropological and travel writing.
This word perfectly shows how adding suffixes to Greek roots lets us create incredibly specific labels—we could theoretically make 'anthropophagist,' 'anthropophage,' and 'anthropophagus' mean slightly different things, but in reality they're almost synonymous.
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