Meanings
plural omophagias
- The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
Omophagia, that’s it! Do you like that word? Take it away with you!
1936, Henry Miller, “Megalopolitan Maniac”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 1381 more example
Uncomfortably, I thought of the Bacchae: hooves and bloody ribs, scraps dangling from the fir trees. There was a word for it in Greek: omophagia.
1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Origin
- Ancient Greekὠμοφαγία
- Englishomophagia
From Ancient Greek ὠμοφαγία (ōmophagía), from ὠμός (ōmós, “raw”) (see omo-) + -φαγία (-phagía) (see -phagia for more). By surface analysis, omo- (“raw, uncooked”) + -phagia.
More words from Ancient Greek
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Icelandic hrákjötsát
- hrákjötsátthe eating of raw food
Italian omofagia
- omofagiathe eating of raw food
Portuguese omofagia
- omofagiathe eating of raw food
Spanish omofagia
- omofagiathe eating of raw food
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with omophagia
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