English

forespore

From fore- + spore.

A compound of fore- + spore

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Proto-Indo-European *sper- ‘to scatter, strew’

Ancient Greek σπορά ‘seed’

New Latin spora

English spore

Today it means

noun The structure, in bacteria, in which an endospore develops

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / forespore