Question

Look up the etymology of the word kaleidoscope.

Where do the root words kalos + eidos + scope come from?
German
French
Greek
Old English

Answer 1

They come from Greek. Kaleidoscope was coined (in English, 1817, by Sir David Brewster) from the Greek elements καλός (kalos, “beautiful”) + εἶδος (eidos, “form, shape, appearance”) + σκοπεῖν / σκοπή (skopein / skopē, “to look” / “observer”), so literally “observer of beautiful forms.”