Etymograph

English

telelectroscope

From tele- + electro- + -scope.

A compound of tele- + electro- + -scope

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ‘to turn, revolve’

Ancient Greek τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off, far away, far from’

English tele-

Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον ‘amber’

French electrum

French électro-

English electro-

Today it means

noun Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “telelectroscope”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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