The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromλῑρόφθᾰλμος“lewd-eyed”
- English todaylirophthalmy
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῑρόφθᾰλμος (līróphthălmos, “lewd-eyed”), from λῑρός (līrós, “lewd; shameless”) + ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós, “eye”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.