telescope
/ˈtelɪskoʊp/·텔레스코프·noun
an instrument for seeing far
GreekCEFR A2
Root
tele- (far) + Greek 'skopein' (to look)
Italian telescopio (early 17th c.) → English telescope (1640s)
In a word
tele- (far) + scope (look) = 'an instrument for looking far'. The mirror of microscope. The same tele lives in telephone (far sound), television (far image), telegraph (far writing). A vocabulary family of human reach.
Examples
They watched the comet through a telescope.
The new telescope can see distant galaxies.
Galileo improved the telescope in 1609.
Related
microscopetelephonetelevisiontelegraphscope