ETYM Cf. French cannibale. Columbus, in a letter from Oct., 1498, mentions that the people of Hayti lived in great fear of the Caribales (equivalent to Eng. Caribbees), the inhabitants of the smaller Antilles.
A person who eats human flesh; SYN. man-eater, anthropophagus, anthropophagite.
Onaj koji jede ljudsko meso; ljudožder; kanibal.
Stanovnik Karaibijskih Ostrva, ljudožder, antropofag; fig. divlji (ili grub, surov) čovek, nečovek, divljak. (šp.)