τηλεσκόπιο

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin telescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”) + -ιον (-ion), from τηλε- (tēle-, “far”) +‎ σκοπέω, σκοπῶ (skopéō, skopô, “to look”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti.leˈsko.pi.o/
  • Hyphenation: τη‧λε‧σκό‧πι‧ο

Noun

τηλεσκόπιο • (tileskópio) n (plural τηλεσκόπια)

  1. telescope

Declension

Declension of τηλεσκόπιο
singular plural
nominative τηλεσκόπιο (tileskópio) τηλεσκόπια (tileskópia)
genitive τηλεσκοπίου (tileskopíou)
τηλεσκόπιου (tileskópiou) 		τηλεσκοπίων (tileskopíon)
accusative τηλεσκόπιο (tileskópio) τηλεσκόπια (tileskópia)
vocative τηλεσκόπιο (tileskópio) τηλεσκόπια (tileskópia)

References

  1. ^ τηλεσκόπιο, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

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