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> In Icelandic, [..] a microscope a small-watcher. So, just like English, then?

• Semiapies 11y ago
  Well, scientific latin.
  • astrobe_ 11y ago
    It's Greek. Television is latin (tele=far, videre/visus=to see), microscope is Greek (micro=small, skopein=to see).
    • innguest 11y ago
      'tele' is Greek (telos is 'extremity' roughly, from which the adverbial sense "far off" for 'tele-'). Television is of mixed etymology.
    • Semiapies 11y ago
      You're right, of course. I should have said "scientific ancient".
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