A word in Latin

It sounds very made up to me. I suspect it's not a word, Latin or otherwise.

PGK said:

I've seen the word "Animovore" used in a few books before but I can't seem to find it in an official Latin dictionary (or the internet of course). It's supposed to mean "soul eater" in the same way that "carnivore" means "meat eater."
Is this accurate or not?
If it is it's the title of a future novel of mine. If it's not . . . I'll use it anyway.

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Anima means soul in Latin. As for the second part of the word, it also derives from Latin: -vorus, from vorāre, to swallow, devour (thesaurus).
So, I guess you could definitely use it with the meaning of "soul eater".

It's a portmanteau word.

Medievalist said:

It's a portmanteau word.

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Now, that's a nice word!
I love Lewis Carroll quotes.

You know, I was wondering exactly about that. Looking at herb-ivore, which comes from herba, herbae and has the same declination as anima, animae, then you would use anim-ivore, does that make sense? There's a caveat though: there's a second word in Latin, which is animus, animi, and this means mind, and it's a little deeper (I think) than anima. It really means what's inside a person, his/her thinking. And if you use that, then you would get animo-vore. Animovorous sounds a little too long, but that's just me. HTH.