English

amoebapore

Compound of amoeba + pore.

A compound of amoeba + pore

Proto-Indo-European *h₂meygʷ- ‘to change, exchange’

Ancient Greek ἀμείβω ‘to exchange’

Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή ‘change’

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to pass, go forth’

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Ancient Greek πόρος ‘passage’

Latin porus ‘pore, passage in the body’

Old French pore

Middle English pore

English pore

Today it means

noun Any of a group of small amphipathic membranolytic proteins present in Entamoeba

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Etymograph / amoebapore