The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκοπέω“examine, inspect, look to or into, consider”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστρόβος“whirl”
- English todaystroboscope
From Ancient Greek στρόβος (stróbos, “whirl”) and Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “examine, inspect, look to or into, consider”). From strobo- + scope.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekστρόβος all →
strobo-
Ancient Greekσκοπέω all →
-scopescopophobic-scopy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.