doryphoros

From Latin doryphoros, from Ancient Greek [Term?], literally "spear-bearing".

doryphoros (plural doryphoroi)

1. (historical or art) A spear-bearing soldier (nowadays, a statue of a man holding a spear, or appearing to do so).

• spear carrier

• “doryphoros”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.