-phore

1. a combining form meaning “bearer of,” “thing or part bearing” that specified by the initial element.

   gonophore.

-phore

combining form

1. indicating a person or thing that bears or produces

   gonophore

   semaphore

Other Word Forms

• -phorous combining form

Word History and Origins

Origin of -phore¹

< New Latin -phorus < Greek -phoros bearing, verbid of phérein; bear ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of -phore¹

from New Latin -phorus, from Greek -phoros bearing, from pherein to bear

Example Sentences

Mrs. H. Baden Pritchard—Impressions from pewter plates of heliographic drawing, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, 1827.

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Original letter, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, sent to the Royal Society, 1827.

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View of Kew, taken by Nic�phore Ni�pce, 1827.

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Joseph Nic�phore de Ni�pce commenced experiments with the hope of securing the pictures as seen in the camera-obscura.

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From the time that Wedgwood and Davy relinquished their investigation, the subject appears to have lain dormant until 1814, when Joseph Nic�phore Ni�pce, of Chalons-sur-Sa�ne, commenced a series of experiments with various resins, with the object of securing or retaining in a permanent state the pictures produced in the camera-obscura, and in 1824, L. J. M. Daguerre turned his attention to the same subject.

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