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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

-phore terminal el. repr. F. -phore, modL. -phorus — Gr. phóros bearing, bearer, f. *phor- *pher- BEAR2, as in semaphore.
So -phoric, -phorous.

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