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- Ancient Greek · derived fromὄψις“aspect, appearance”
- New Latin · derived from-opsis“resembling in appearance”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκόρις“bedbug”
- English todaycoreopsis
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”) + New Latin -opsis (“resembling in appearance”), from Ancient Greek ὄψις (ópsis, “aspect, appearance”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὄψις all →
-opsis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.