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- Ancient Greek · derived from-φαγία
- English today-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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.