ὡροσκοπεῖον
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- an instrument for telling the time, clock, sundial
- horoscope
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek ὥρα (season, time, year, hour, whether of the year, any time period, or day, month, period, part of a sacrificial victim, fixed period of time, any limited time) + Ancient Greek σκοπέω (examine, look at, I look, look to into, inspect, consider, I look at, watch, look for, see, look, contemplate, view, I examine).
Origin
Ancient Greek
σκοπέω
Gloss
examine, look at, I look, look to into, inspect, consider, I look at, watch, look for, see, look, contemplate, view, I examine
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
見
Emoji
⌚️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -scope English
- -scopy English
- archbishop English
- horo- English
- horoscope English
- -scopium Latin
- hora Latin
- hōra Latin
- scopo Latin
- -scope French
- οὐρανοσκόπος Ancient Greek
- σκοπέω Ancient Greek
- σκοπός Ancient Greek
- ἄωρος Ancient Greek
- ἡλιοσκόπιον Ancient Greek
- ὡρολόγιον Ancient Greek
- ὥρα Ancient Greek
- ὥριμος Ancient Greek
- *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *sḱop Proto-Indo-European
- *yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- -skop Norwegian Bokmål
- -skop Norwegian Nynorsk
- होरा Sanskrit
- άγουρος Greek (modern)
- μικροσκόπιο Greek (modern)
- ώρα Greek (modern)
- mikroskops Latvian
- হোরা Bengali
- ούρα Tsakonian