The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromᾠοφόρον“egg-bearer”
- English todayoophoron
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾠοφόρον (ōiophóron, “egg-bearer”), neuter of ᾠοφόρος (ōiophóros, “egg-bearing”). By surface analysis, oo- + -phore + -on.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.