xērŏphăgĭa — Lewis & Short
xērŏphăgĭa, ae, f., = chrofagi/a,
I the eating of dry food: xerophagias observare, Tert. adv Psych. 1 fin.
The corpus record — Latin
xerophagia
xerophagia · f
the eating of dry food
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
- Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- xerophagi Petronius, Satyricon 56
- xerophagiae Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 5
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.