The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμανός“thin, rare”
- English todaymanoscope
From Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin, rare”) + -scope, equivalent to mano- + -scope.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμανός all →
manometermano-manographmanoxylic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.