Etymology

From French sarcophage, from Latin sarcophagus, from Ancient Greek σαρκοφάγος ‎(sarkophágos, “coffin of limestone”, noun), so named from a supposed property of consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, from σαρκοφάγος ‎(sarkophágos, “flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from genitive σαρκός ‎(sarkós) of σάρξ ‎(sárx, “flesh, meat”) + -φάγος ‎(-phágos) (from ἔφαγον ‎(éphagon), past of φαγεῖν ‎(phageîn, “to eat”))

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːx
• Hyphenation: sar‧co‧faag