The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀφθᾰλμῐκός“of or for the eyes”
- Latin · borrowed fromophthalmicus
- English todayophthalmic
Borrowed from Latin ophthalmicus, from Ancient Greek ὀφθᾰλμῐκός (ophthălmĭkós, “of or for the eyes”), from ὀφθᾰλμός (ophthălmós, “eye”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀφθᾰλμῐκός all →
lagophthalmic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.