-scope
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- An instrument for viewing or observing:
观测仪器：一种供观察或检测的仪器：
bronchoscope.
支气管镜
语源
- New Latin -scopium
现代拉丁语 -scopium - from Greek -skopion
源自 希腊语 -skopion - from skopein [to see] * see spek-
源自 skopein [看] *参见 spek-
-scope
combining form in countable noun
indicating an instrument for observing, viewing, or detecting
⇒
microscope
⇒
stethoscope
Derived Forms
-scopic combining form in adjectiveOrigin
from New Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein to look at-scope
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “instrument for viewing,” used in the formation of compound words:
telescope.
Compare -scopy.
Origin
< New Latin -scopium < Greek -skopion, -skopeion, equivalent to skop(eîn) to look at (akin to sképtesthai to look, view carefully; cf. skeptic) + -ion, -eion noun suffix
Related Words
- -scopy
- amblyoscope
- anamorphoscope
- anemoscope
- anoscope
- arthroscope
-scopea word element referring to instruments for viewing, as in telescope.
[New Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion or -skopeion, from skopein look at]-scope
noun combining form
endoscope
spectroscope
noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY New Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion; akin to Greek skeptesthai
: means (as an instrument) for viewing or observingendoscope
spectroscope
-scope
combining form
- denoting an instrument for observing, viewing, or examining表示“用来查看或检查的仪器”：
-
microscope
telescope
派生词
-scopic combining form
in corresponding adjectives
［用于构成相对应的形容词］。
词源
from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein 'look at'.
-scope
word-forming element indicating "an instrument for seeing," from Late Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein "to look at, examine" (see scope, n.1).
ORIGIN: Modern Latin -scopium , from Greek skopein look at, examine.
☞ scope
-scope
\ˌskōp\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: New Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein
: a means (as an instrument) for viewing with the eye or observing in any way
< microscope >
< microscope >
-scope
Suffix
- Used to make terms denoting an instrument used for viewing or examination.
Etymology
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “examine, inspect, look to or into, consider”).
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -scope