-scopy
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Viewing; seeing; observation:
观察；观看；检查：
microscopy.
显微镜学
语源
- Greek -skopia
希腊语 -skopia - from skopein [to see] * see spek-
源自 skopein [看] *参见 spek-
-scopy
combining form in countable noun
indicating a viewing or observation
⇒
microscopy
Origin
from Greek -skopia, from skopein to look at-scopy
Word Origin
1
a combining form used to form abstract action nouns corresponding to nouns with stems ending in -scope:
telescopy.
Origin
< Greek skopía watching. See -scope, -y3
Related Words
- -scope
- anthroposcopy
- arthroscopy
- astigmatoscopy
- bacterioscopy
- bioscopy
-scopya word element for forming abstract action nouns related to -scope, as in telescopy.
[Greek -skopia, literally, watching. See -scope]-scopy
noun combining form
spectroscopy
noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY Greek -skopia, from skeptesthai
: viewing : observationspectroscopy
-scopy
combining form
- indicating viewing, observation, or examination, typically with an instrument having a name ending in -scope表示“（尤指用带'镜'的仪器）查看、观察或检查”：
-
endoscopy
microscopy
词源
from Greek skopia 'observation'， from skopein 'examine， look at'.
-scopy
word-forming element meaning "viewing, examining, observing," from Modern Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein "to look at, examine" (see scope, n.1).
ORIGIN: from Greek skopia observation, from skopein examine, look at: see -y 3
-scopy
combining form. observation; examination: Cranioscopy = examination of the cranium.
[< Greek skopiǡ watchtower < skopeîn look at]
-sco·py
\skəpē, -pi\ noun combining form
(-es)
Etymology: Greek -skopia, from skopein to view + -ia -y — more at spy
: viewing, examination, scrutiny, observation
< fluoroscopy >
< microscopy >
< spectroscopy >
< fluoroscopy >
< microscopy >
< spectroscopy >
-scopy
Suffix
- observation, viewing
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “to see”).
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -scopy