polyphagus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολυφάγος (poluphágos, “much-eating, voracious”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔˈly.pʰa.ɡʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [poˈliː.fa.ɡus] === Noun === polyphagus m (genitive polyphagī); second declension glutton Synonyms: cataphagās, comēstor, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, lurcō, mandō, mandūcō, phagō ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: polyphagous (with renewed meaning) === References === “polyphagus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. polyphagus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung “polyphagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press