English

fluoroprobe

From fluoro- + probe.

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰH-wó-s ‘being in front’

Proto-Italic *proβos ‘favourable’

Latin probus ‘good’

Latin probare ‘to test, examine, prove’

English probe

Today it means

noun Any of various probes used to measure fluorescence

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fluoroprobe