▪ I. urano-1
(ˈjʊərənəʊ)
combining form of Gr. οὐρανός sky, heaven(s), roof of the mouth, occurring in: a. † uraˈnognosy (see quot.); uraˈnolatry, worship of the heavenly bodies; uranoˈmania, -pathy, -phoˈtography, -phoˈtometer, -ˈscopian (a fish of the family Uranoscopidæ), -theism (see quots.). b. uranostomaˈtoscopy, examination of the hard palate and back of the mouth; also uranoplastic a., -plasty.
Recent Dicts. give uranoplegia, urano-rrhaphy, urano-schisis, urano-staphylplasty, urano-staphylorraphy.
| a 1831 Bentham Logic App., Wks. 1843 VIII. 286/2 By *Uranognosy, rather than Astronomy, may that branch of Topography, taken in its largest sense, which remains after the substraction of Geography be designated. |
| 1877 W. H. Rule Oriental Rec., Mon. 6 *Uranolatry was grown into a system, and the Chaldean or Babylonian astronomy had become a science. |
| 1890 Billings Med. Dict. II. 723 *Uranomania, monomania involving the idea of a divine or celestial origin or connection; a species of megalomania. |
| 1868 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 246 That crenopathy and *uranopathy, that yielding of ourselves to running water and to still clouds. |
| a 1909 Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 304 *Urano-photography, the photography of celestial spaces. |
| 1876 Nature 21 Dec. 170/1 The diffuse light of the sky..has recently been a subject of study by M. Wild,..who has endeavoured to measure it with a somewhat complicated instrument devised by him and named a ‘*uranophotometer’. |
| c 185. Sir J. Richardson's Mus. Nat. Sci. II. 120/1 *Urano⁓scopians, or Sky-gazers. |
| 1801 Monthly Mag. XI. 646 *Urano⁓theism, or the worship of sun, moon, thunder, and meteors. |
| b. a 1891 Medical News XLIX. 559 (Cent.), Phrenopathic uranostomatoscopy. |
▪ II. ˈurano-2 combining form of uran-ium, occurring,
usu. in the sense ‘containing, composed or having the structure of, uranium’, in various (chiefly mineralogical) terms (some of which have little or no real currency in the language, but are mere borrowings from German sources), as
urano-ammonic,
urano-chalcite,
urano-circite,
urano-niobate,
urano-phane,
urano-phyllite,
urano-pilite,
urano-pissite,
urano-sphærite,
urano-spinite,
urano-tantal(ite,
urano-thallite,
urano-thorite,
urano-til(e.
| 1850 Watts tr. Gmelin's Handbk. Chem. IV. 184–5 Urano-ammonic Carbonate,..Urano-ammonic Sulphate. 1850 Ansted Geol. & Min. 220. 1855 Orr's Circle Sci., Geol. 531. 1867 Brande & Cox Dict. Sci. III. 905. 1868 Dana Min. 1868 Watts' Dict. Chem. V. 186, 949. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 407, 425, 427. 1896 Chester Dict. Min. 278–9. |