Etymograph

English

teletopometer

tele- + topo- + -meter

Formed from tele- + topo- + -meter

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

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

English tele-

Ancient Greek τόπος ‘place’

English topo-

Today it means

noun A surveyor's instrument with telescopes and a tripod, able to measure distances, altitudes, etc. of inaccessible points without either a traditional baseline or the use of trigonometry.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “teletopometer”. 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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