Etymology

telpher

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Today it means: An electric-run cable car used for transportation, along overhead wires. Full definition →

Ancient Greek φέρω
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromφέρω
  2. English todaytelpher

From tele- + Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekφέρω all →

homophoraPherecydes

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.