Etymology

doryphoros

D2O1R1Y4P3H4O1R1O1S1

Today it means: A spear-bearing soldier (nowadays, a statue of a man holding a spear, or appearing to do so). Full definition →

Latin doryphoros ← Ancient Greek [Term?]
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived from[Term?]
  2. Latin · derived fromdoryphoros
  3. English todaydoryphoros

From Latin doryphoros, from Ancient Greek [Term?], literally "spear-bearing".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.