The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥύπος“filth”
- English todayrhypophagy
From Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) and the suffix -φαγία (-phagía), combining form of φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”) See also suffix -phagy.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekῥύπος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.