Word of the Day - Creophagous

creophagous

/krɪˈɒfəɡəs/
(also kreophagous)
adjective
rare
Flesh-eating or carnivorous.

Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek kreophagus, from kreas ‘flesh’ + -phagos (see -phagous).

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Vance compared the origins. His family on the smaller side was mostly creophagous. On the opposite, larger branch, the majority were carnivorous. His mother and father's marriage had merged the two families' businesses into the most successful butchers in the region.

[As a student, somewhere between the fifth and eighth grade, an English
teacher impressed upon us that we would understand our language better
if we recognized the common roots of words, often travelling to English
through Italian, Spanish and French from Latin or Greek. It looks like
this time, the Latin won the day, leaving the Greek in obscurity.]