Origin: 1425–75;late Middle English < Late Latinsplendōrifer brightness-bearing (see splendor, -fer, -ous; loss of -or probably by shift of stress, syncope, and dissimilation) + -ous
considered a playful elaboration since its re-birth in 1843, but it was a perfectly good 15c. word, from M.L. splendorifer, from splendor (see splendor) + ferre "to bear" (see infer).