The story
- Latin · derived from-phagus“eater”
- English todayautophagi
From auto- (“by oneself”) + Latin -phagus (“eater”, plural -phagī). The attested Ancient Greek αὐτοφάγος (autophágos) would have meant "self-devouring, autophagous".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.