From French sarcophage, from Latin sarcophagus, from Ancient Greek σαρκοφάγος, so named from a supposed property of consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, from σαρκοφάγος, from genitive σαρκός of σάρξ + -φάγος (from ἔφαγον, past of φάγω)
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