Where does “telescoper” come from?
telescoper (English) comes from English telescope, from Latin telescopium, from Italian telescopio, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin, gum; to say, speak.
telescoper (English): That which telescopes, particularly in the mathematical sense
Definitions
- That which telescopes, particularly in the mathematical sense
Ancestry of “telescoper”, step by step
telescoper traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English telescope
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | telescope | A monocular optical instrument that magnifies... |
| 2 | Latin | telescopium | a telescope |
| 3 | Italian | telescopio | telescope |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | τηλεσκόπος | far-seeing |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |