Sparing a thought for food, possibly the most common words that come to mind are elementary. Carnivore, piscivore, omnivore, the lot. The common root amongst them is “-vore” which in Latin, loosely means, “eat” depending upon the form of the word. If you get creative with the root, you can make words like voracious or voracity (which represent greediness) and devour (“de” means down, so when you eat something bottom-up, or eagerly, you devour). Other than that, the root falls loose but you can use to create a food out of anything, from gold in aurivorous, to cutlery in cultrivorous.
It’s counterpart in Ancient Greek is more common in the medicinal and zoological world, as “-phagia”. It’s different forms, as with other roots, would be “phagy” (pertaining to an act), “-phage” (to a person), or “-phagic” (to a condition). So a person who has difficulty eating or swallowing, would be suffering from dysphagia, and would be dysphagic. If they lose the ability completely, they’d be aphagic.
If you eat a lot, you become hyperphagic; and if you do, you suffer from an insatiable love for food and are phagomanic. If you are rich and want to preserve your soul and bones by getting all of your flesh eaten off, consider buying a sarcophagus; and if that doesn’t work out, then sucks to be you because we’re increasingly running out of toilet paper.
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