mid 16th century (in the sense ‘target for shooting at’): from Italian scopo ‘aim’, from Greek skopos ‘target’, from skeptesthai ‘look out’. scope (sense 3 of the noun) is derived from -scope
16世紀半ば(「射的」の意):イタリア語のscopo「狙い」、ギリシャ語のskopos「目標」、skeptesthai「見張る」に由来する。