Where does “stercophagic” come from?

stercophagic (English) comes from English phagic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

stercophagic (English): Dung-eating

Definitions

  1. Dung-eating

Ancestry of “stercophagic”, step by step

stercophagic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English phagic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishphagicOf or pertaining to a phage; bacteriophagic
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via Italian sterco

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianstercodung
2Latinstercusdung, excrement, ordure
3Latinbīlisbile
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeyd-to split
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰey-bee
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en