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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καταφαγᾶς (kataphagâs), from καταφαγεῖν (kataphageîn), aorist of κατεσθίω (katesthíō, “I eat up”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cataphagās m (genitive cataphagae); first declension
- glutton
- Synonyms: comēstor, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, lurcō, mandō, mandūcō, phagō, polyphagus
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
References
- cataphagas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- cataphagas in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “cataphagas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κατεσθίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press