cataphagas

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek καταφαγᾶς (kataphagâs), from καταφαγεῖν (kataphageîn), aorist of κατεσθίω (katesthíō, “to eat up”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈta.pʰa.ɡaːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈtaː.fa.ɡas] === Noun === cataphagās m (genitive cataphagae); first declension glutton Synonyms: comēstor, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, lurcō, mandō, mandūcō, phagō, polyphagus ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās). === References === “cataphagas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. cataphagas in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung “cataphagas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “κατεσθίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press