cephalophore

The story

1. French · borrowed fromcéphalophore
2. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκεφαλή“head”
3. English todaycephalophore

From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (phérō, “I bear, I carry”); in the Christian sense, via French céphalophore, coined by Marcel Hébert in 1914.

Words from the same roots