scope

scope
\ \ [16] Greek skopós meant ‘target’. As it passed via Italian scopo into English it evolved metaphorically to ‘aim kept in view, goal, purpose’ (‘the seventh Council of Carthage and the Milevitane Council, which both tend to one end and scope, that there should be no appellations made out of Africa’, Nicholas Harpsfield, The Pretended Divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon 1555), but the further step to ‘range’ seems to be an English development. The Greek word came from the base *skop- ‘look, observe’, which also produced -skoposlooking’ (ultimate source of English bishop, which etymologically denotes ‘overseer’) and -skópioninstrument for observing’ (which lies behind English microscope, telescope, etc). Sceptic comes from a variant of the same base.
\ \ Cf.BISHOP, SCEPTIC

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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