Word Structure

WordHub has a local lexical record for “Sialophagia” with pronunciation and root analysis.

• sial

  spittle, foam from the mouth; the salivary glands

  Forms: sial

• phag

  to eat, consume, devour -phage: one that eats or ingests

  Forms: phag, phage

• -ia

  a suffix that forms nouns; state of, condition of, quality of; act of - names of diseases - names of countries - names of chemical alkaloids - names of flowers, from names of the discoverer or the person who introduced the flower - names of classes and orders in botany and zoology - names of collective nouns - names of things relating to something - plurals of Latin and Greek nouns that end with -ion, -ium, -um

  Forms: ia