The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσυνοπτικός“seeing the whole together or at a glance”
- New Latin · borrowed fromsynopticus
- English todaysynoptic
From New Latin synopticus, from Ancient Greek συνοπτικός (sunoptikós, “seeing the whole together or at a glance”), from σύνοψις (súnopsis, “a general view, synopsis”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.