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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φαγών (phagṓn) or Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos).
Pronunciation
Noun
phagō m (genitive phagōnis); third declension
- a glutton
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “phago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- phago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- phago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.