The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμυῖα“fly”
- English todaymyopsis
From Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “fly”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “sight”). Although myopia is superficially very similar in both the English and original Greek forms, the first parts of the two compounds aren't related.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμυῖα all →
myiasis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.