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-phagia

-phagia suffix: eating, biting or swallowing.

Suffix

-phagia

  1. eating, biting or swallowing

Origin of -phagia

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”).

Questions about -phagia

What does -phagia mean?
-phagia means eating, biting or swallowing.
What part of speech is -phagia?
-phagia is a suffix.

Words near -phagia in the dictionary

  1. -person
  2. -persons
  3. -petal
  4. -pexy
  5. -phage
  6. -phagia
  7. -phagic
  8. -phagist
  9. -phagous
  10. -phagy
  11. -phalangia

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