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-phore

  1. a combining form meaning “bearer of,” “thing or part bearing” that specified by the initial element:

    gonophore.



-phore

combining form

  1. indicating a person or thing that bears or produces

    gonophore

    semaphore

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • -phorous, combining_form:in_adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -phore1

< New Latin -phorus < Greek -phoros bearing, verbid of phérein; bear 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -phore1

from New Latin -phorus, from Greek -phoros bearing, from pherein to bear
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Example Sentences

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Mrs. H. Baden Pritchard—Impressions from pewter plates of heliographic drawing, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, 1827.

Joseph Nic�phore de Ni�pce commenced experiments with the hope of securing the pictures as seen in the camera-obscura.

As Daguerre was the first of the successful discoverers of photography to be summoned by death, I will here give a brief sketch of his life and pursuits prior to his association with Nic�phore Ni�pce and photography.

After the death of M. Nic�phore Ni�pce, a new agreement was entered into by his son, M. Isidore Ni�pce, and M. Daguerre, and we must leave those two experimentalists pursuing their discoveries in France while we return to England to pick up the chronological links that unite the history of this wonderful discovery with the time that it was abandoned by Wedgwood and Davy, and the period of its startling and brilliant realization.

Original letter, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, sent to the Royal Society, 1827.

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