ultramicroscope

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Latin ūls

Proto-Indo-European *-teros?

Latin -ter

Old Latin -ād

Latin -ā

Latin ultrābor.

English ultra-

Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?

Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)

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)

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Latin mīcroscopiumlbor.

Italian microscopiobor.

English microscope

English ultramicroscope

From ultra- + microscope.

Noun

ultramicroscope (plural ultramicroscopes)

1. a microscope that uses bright illumination against a black background to view small particles

Translations

a microscope that uses bright illumination against a black background to view small particles

• Arabic: مجهر فوقي m
• Bashkir: ультрамикроскоп (oltramikruskup)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超顯微鏡 / 超显微镜 (zh) (chāoxiǎnwēijìng)

• Dutch: ultramicroscoop m
• German: Ultramikroskop n
• Hungarian: ultramikroszkóp (hu)
• Irish: ultraimicreascóp m
• Japanese: 限外顕微鏡 (げんがいけんびきょう, gengaikenbikyō)
• Kazakh: ультрамикроскоп (uwlʹtramıykroskop)
• Korean: 한외현미경(限外顯微鏡) (hanoehyeonmigyeong)
• Kyrgyz: ультрамикроскоп (ultramikroskop)
• Malayalam: അതിസൂക്ഷ്മദർശിനി (atisūkṣmadaṟśini)
• Telugu: అతిసూక్ష్మదర్శిని (atisūkṣmadarśini)
• Uzbek: ultramikroskop (uz)

French

Noun

ultramicroscope m (plural ultramicroscopes)

1. ultramicroscope

Further reading

• “ultramicroscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012