Etymology

scoping

scope·ing
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Today it means: the act of adding a scope Full definition →

English scope ← Italian scopo ← Late Latin scopus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*speḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*spéḱyeti
  3. Proto-Hellenic*sképt͏̌omai
  4. Ancient Greekσκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
  5. Ancient Greekσκοπός (skopós)
  6. Late Latinscopus
  7. Italianscopo
  8. Englishscope
  9. English todayscoping

From scope + -ing.

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