scatophage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dungfly.
Etymology
From New Latin scatophagus, from Ancient Greek σκατοφάγος (skatophágos), from σκατο- (skato-, “shit”) and φάγος (phágos, “eater; glutton”), from φᾰγεῖν (phăgeîn, “to eat”) + -ος (-os, “-er”, forming agent nouns). Equivalent to scato- + -phage. In particular reference to dungflies, an anglicization of their genus Scatophaga.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scatophagus, σκατοφάγος
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
scatophagian
scatophagous