Etymology

sarcophagi

sar·co·pha·gi
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Latin sarcophagī
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromsarcophagī
  2. English todaysarcophagi

Borrowed from Latin sarcophagī, from sarcophagus + -ī (suffix denoting the nominative or vocative plural form of a word ending in -us).

Words from the same roots

Latinsarcophagī all →

sarcophagus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.