English Explanatory Dictionary

-phagia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. eating, biting or swallowing

Word forms

-phagia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek -φαγία (-phagía) (compare -φάγος (-phágos, “eater”)), suffix corresponding to φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”), infinitive of ἔφαγον (éphagon, “I eat”), which serves as aorist for the defective verb ἐσθίω (esthíō, “I eat”).

Related words

-phage -phagy -phagous
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