cannibal

• n. 人食い人種; 同類を食べる動物
• adj.人食い; 肉食; 殺人的

Caribbeanの綴りが変化したもの。この言葉は、カリブ海の原住民が食人であると信じた初期のヨーロッパ人入植者によって英語に持ち込まれた。

cannibal

cannibal: [16] Cannibal was originally a proper name, applied by the Spaniards to the Carib people of the West Indies (whom they regarded as eaters of human flesh). It is a variant, originally used by Christopher Columbus, of Caribes, which comes from Carib, a word of Carib origin in the Arawakan language of northern South America and the Caribbean. It is related to the Caribs’ name for themselves, Galibi, literally ‘strong men’.

cannibal (n.)

"human that eats human flesh," 1550s, from Spanish canibal, caribal "a savage, cannibal," from Caniba, Christopher Columbus' rendition of the Caribs' name for themselves (see Caribbean). The natives were believed to be anthropophagites. Columbus, seeking evidence that he was in Asia, thought the name meant the natives were subjects of the Great Khan. Shakespeare's Caliban (in "The Tempest") is from a version of this word, with -n- and -l- interchanged, found in Hakluyt's "Voyages" (1599). The Spanish word had reached French by 1515. Used of animals from 1796. An Old English word for "cannibal" was self?ta.

1. Cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been caught trying to hide a razor blade in his cell.

人食いキラーのジェフリー?ダーマーが、カミソリの片を牢屋に隠そうとして捕まった。

2."We would like very much to have you for dinner，"as the cannibal said to the captured missionary.

捕虜になった宣教師に、「私たちはあなたを招待するために宴会を作りたい」と言った。

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3.A life-thirsting， cannibal looking，bloody-minded juryman，the Jacques Three of St.Antoine.

それは聖アントワン区のジャック3番で、殺人的で、人を食べるのに生臭い、血なまぐさい陪審員である。

4.His sharp cannibal teeth revealed by cold and wrath,gleamed through the dark.

鋭い人肉を食べる彼の歯は、寒さと怒りで露わになり、暗闇の中で輝いていた。

5.The Cannibal won 't get us without his seven-mile shoes.

人食いは彼の7里の靴がなければ私たちを捕まえられない。