telescopium

See also: Telescopium

Latin

tēle​scopium (sense 1) in observātōriō Nīcaeæ in Franciâ

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.

Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.

Italian tèle-

Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Hellenic *sképt͏̌omai

Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Hellenic *-ós

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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.

Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)

Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)

Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.

Latin -scopiumder.

Italian -scòpio

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Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos)influ.

Italian tèlescòpiobor.

Latin tēlescopium

Coined by Italian polymath Galileo Galilei in 1611 (although he did not invent the device) as Italian tèlescòpio, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [teː.ɫɛˈskɔ.pi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [te.leˈskɔː.pi.um]
• Hyphenation: tē‧le‧sco‧pi‧um

Noun

tēlescopium n (genitive tēlescopiī); second declension

2. (New Latin) telescope

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tēlescopium	tēlescopia
genitive	tēlescopiī	tēlescopiōrum
dative	tēlescopiō	tēlescopiīs
accusative	tēlescopium	tēlescopia
ablative	tēlescopiō	tēlescopiīs
vocative	tēlescopium	tēlescopia

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: телеско́п (teleskóp)
• → Crimean Tatar: teleskop
• → Danish: teleskop
• → English: telescope, Telescopium
• → French: télescope
• → German: Teleskop
• → Greek: τηλεσκόπιο (tileskópio)
• → Hungarian: teleszkóp
• → Lithuanian: teleskopas
• → Macedonian: телескоп (teleskop)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: teleskop
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: teleskop
• → Polish: teleskop
• → Russian: телеско́п (teleskóp)
  • → Kazakh: телескоп (teleskop)
• → Serbo-Croatian: tȅleskop
• → Slovak: teleskop
• → Swedish: teleskop
• → Translingual: Telescopium
• → Turkish: teleskop
• → Ukrainian: телеско́п (teleskóp)

Further reading

• Latino-Sinicum [ = 千里眼 (qiānlǐyǎn), 眼鏡／眼镜 (yǎnjìng)], in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011