doryphore
English
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Etymology
A modification of doriphore, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French doryphore (“Colorado beetle”) by Harold Nicolson in 1952, presumably under the influence of the various senses of pest. The French term was a translation of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin genus Doryphora, itself from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek δορυφόρος (doruphóros, “lance-bearing; lance-bearer”).[1]
Noun
doryphore (plural doryphores)
- (rare, humorous) A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes.
- 1952 August 22, Harold Nicolson, Spectator, p. 238:
- 1960 December 9, Daily Telegraph, p. 19:
- The idiomatic implications of such a word as doryphore in his own text is left for the ignorant to guess. (It means a Colorado beetle and, hence, a pest.)
References
- ^ "doryphore, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin Doryphora (the former genus of the Colorado beetle), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek δορυφόρος (doruphóros, “lance-bearing; lance-bearer”).
Pronunciation
Noun
doryphore m (plural doryphores)
Further reading
- “doryphore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French doryphore, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin Doryphora, its former genus.
Noun
doryphore m (plural doryphores)
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