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Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34

Greek Monolingual

-ο (Α οὐρανοσκόπος, -ον)
1. αυτός που παρατηρεί τον ουρανό
2. το αρσ. ως ουσ. ο ουρανοσκόπος
ζωολ. γένος περκόμορφων ιχθύων της οικογένειας ουρανοσκοπίδες, κν. λύχνος και τσιγαράς.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ουρανο- + -σκόπος (< σκοπός < σκέπτομαι), πρβλ. οιωνο-σκόπος].