- Uranoscopidae. The name
Uranoscopus is from the Gr****, ouranos, "sky" and
skopein, "to watch".
There are 25
species in the genus:
Uranoscopus affinis Cuvier...
-
invention from the Gr****
words μικρόν (micron)
meaning "small", and σκοπεῖν (
skopein)
meaning "to look at". The word was
meant to be
analogous with "telescope"...
- A
hagioscope (from
Ancient Gr**** άγιος (ágios) 'holy', and σκοπεῖν (
skopeîn) 'to see') or
squint is an
architectural term
denoting a
small spla**** opening...
- "finger" (a
reference to the
divided mouth and
operculum fringes) and
skopein meaning "to watch". List of fish
families Froese, Rainer, and
Daniel Pauly...
- (sképtesthai), σκέψις (sképsis), σκέμμα, σκεπτικός (skeptikós), σκοπεῖν (
skopeîn), σκοπός, σκοποῦ (skopós) Abroscopus, diascopic, diascopy, endoscope, endoscopic...
- "-scope"
comes from the
modern Latin "-scopium", from the Gr**** σκοπεῖν (
skopein)
meaning to "look at" or "to examine". The
first endoscope was developed...
- word is from the
Ancient Gr**** τῆλε,
romanized tele 'far' and σκοπεῖν,
skopein 'to look or see'; τηλεσκόπος,
teleskopos 'far-seeing'. The
earliest existing...
- from the Gr****
words στρόβος - strobos,
meaning "whirlpool" and σκοπεῖν -
skopein,
meaning "to look at". As well as
having important applications for scientific...
-
coining the name
telescope (from the Gr**** τῆλε, tele "far" and σκοπεῖν,
skopein "to look or see") for a
version of the
instrument presented by Galileo...
- -scopia when the art
seemed more
scientific (ultimately from Gr**** σκοπεῖν,
skopeîn, 'to observe').
Names like drimimantia, nigromantia, and
horoscopia arose...
