Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cephalophore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cephalophore
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.

noun

Synonym of cephalopod: a mollusk of the class Cephalopoda.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”"

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: κεφαλή, céphalophore

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

cephalophores (plural)

Synonyms

cephalopod

Questions

What does cephalophore mean?: Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.
Where does cephalophore come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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