Bromatophagia
/ˌbroʊmətəˈfeɪdʒiə/noun
The act or process of eating food, especially as used in zoological or medical terminology.
Did you know?Its Greek eating-root, phagein, also appears in sarcophagus—literally “flesh-eating,” referring to stone believed to consume a corpse.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bʰeh₂ǵ-
“To eat or consume; the reconstructed root behind Greek phagein.”
Ancient Greek
Greek
βρῶμα (brōma)
“Food or something eaten.”
Ancient Greek
Greek
φαγεῖν (phagein)
“To eat or consume.”
Hellenistic Greek
Greek
βρωματοφαγία (brōmatophagia)
“The eating or consumption of food, formed from brōma and phagein.”
19th Century
Scientific Latin
bromatophagia
“Technical term for food-eating or feeding, especially in biological and medical writing.”
Modern English
English
bromatophagia
“The act or process of eating food.”
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