omnivorous

English

Etymology

From omni- +‎ -vorous; from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin omni, all and -vore.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: om‧niv‧o‧rous

Adjective

omnivorous (not comparable)

1. Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
2. (figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
   • 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion (page 57)

     The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.

   • 2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press. p.72:

     He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]

3. (figuratively) All-consuming.

Derived terms

• omnivorousness

Related terms

• omnivore, carnivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous

Translations

having the ability to eat both animal and vegetable food

• Basque: omniboro (eu), orojale
• Catalan: omnívor
• Czech: všežravý m
• Esperanto: ĉiovora
• Faroese: altetandi
• Finnish: kaikkiruokainen (fi)
• French: omnivore (fr)
• Georgian: ყველაფრისმჭამელი (q̇velaprismč̣ameli), ყოვლისმშთანთქმელი (q̇ovlismštantkmeli)
• German: allfressend
• Greek: παμφάγος (el) (pamfágos)
• Hungarian: mindenevő (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: onnivoro (it)
• Malay: maserba
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: altetende (no)

  Nynorsk: altetande

• Polish: wszystkożerny (pl) m
• Portuguese: omnívoro (Portugal), onívoro (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: всея́дный (ru) (vsejádnyj)
• Spanish: omnívoro (es)
• Swedish: allätande
• Tagalog: tanankainin