phallophorusn.

Brit.

/ˌfalə(ʊ)ˈfɔːrəs/, U.S.

/ˌfæloʊˈfɔrəs/

Inflections: Plural phallophori, phallophoroi.

Forms: 1800s– phallophorus, 1900s– phallophoros.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin phallophorus; Greek ϕαλλοϕόρος.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin phallophorus person carrying a phallus (a1536 in Erasmus) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek ϕαλλοϕόρος bearing a phallus < ancient Greek ϕαλλός penis (see phallos n.) + -ϕόρος (see -phore comb. form). Compare French phallophore (1721).Not fully naturalized in English.

A person carrying a phallus, esp. as part of a festival of Dionysus in ancient Greece.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > classical > [noun] > Dionysus > carrying of phallus > one who

phallophorus1830

1830 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 1 Phallophori, and Mænadic women.

1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Athenæus Deipnosophists III. xiv. 992 The Phallophorus..marched straight on, covered with soot and dirt.

1884 H. M. Westropp Primitive Symbolism (1885) 54 The periphallia..carried long poles with phalli hung at the end of them: they were crowned with violets and ivy... These men were called phallophori.

1909 L. R. Farnell Cults Greek States V. v. 210 It may be that Semos of Delos is describing something that happened in the later Attic festival when—according to Athenaeus—he speaks of ‘the ithyphalloi’..and of the phallophoroi without masks entering through the central doors of the theatre.

1933 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 37 265 After the more lofty dignitaries—the heros, dadouchos, priests, priestesses—came the divine statue carried by the theophoroi, followed by..a phallophoros, and two pyrphoroi.

1997 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Jan. t15 One of those Dionysian revels Jacobson repeatedly hankers after, complete with satirical Phallophoroi.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	phallophorus
释义	phallophorusn. Brit. /ˌfalə(ʊ)ˈfɔːrəs/, U.S. /ˌfæloʊˈfɔrəs/ Inflections: Plural phallophori, phallophoroi. Forms: 1800s– phallophorus, 1900s– phallophoros. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin phallophorus; Greek ϕαλλοϕόρος. Etymology: < post-classical Latin phallophorus person carrying a phallus (a1536 in Erasmus) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek ϕαλλοϕόρος bearing a phallus < ancient Greek ϕαλλός penis (see phallos n.) + -ϕόρος (see -phore comb. form). Compare French phallophore (1721).Not fully naturalized in English. A person carrying a phallus, esp. as part of a festival of Dionysus in ancient Greece. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > classical > [noun] > Dionysus > carrying of phallus > one who phallophorus1830 1830 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 1 Phallophori, and Mænadic women. 1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Athenæus Deipnosophists III. xiv. 992 The Phallophorus..marched straight on, covered with soot and dirt. 1884 H. M. Westropp Primitive Symbolism (1885) 54 The periphallia..carried long poles with phalli hung at the end of them: they were crowned with violets and ivy... These men were called phallophori. 1909 L. R. Farnell Cults Greek States V. v. 210 It may be that Semos of Delos is describing something that happened in the later Attic festival when—according to Athenaeus—he speaks of ‘the ithyphalloi’..and of the phallophoroi without masks entering through the central doors of the theatre. 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 37 265 After the more lofty dignitaries—the heros, dadouchos, priests, priestesses—came the divine statue carried by the theophoroi, followed by..a phallophoros, and two pyrphoroi. 1997 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Jan. t15 One of those Dionysian revels Jacobson repeatedly hankers after, complete with satirical Phallophoroi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830
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