The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκοπροφάγος
- Latin · borrowed fromcoprophagus
- English todaycoprophage
Borrowed from Latin coprophagus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κοπροφάγος (koprophágos), from κόπρος (kópros, “dung”) + -φάγος (-phágos, “eater; glutton”). Equivalent to copro- + -phage.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.