stethoscope
STETH-uh-skohp · noun
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Origin
Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by the physician René Laennec himself. He built it from the elements stetho- and -scope.
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Journey
The word has named this listening instrument since Laennec coined it.
Related words
Its second half, -scope, links it to a family of English instrument names built the same way.
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