Etymology

parablepsis

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Today it means: A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it. Full definition →

Ancient Greek παρά
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαρά“beside”
  2. English todayparablepsis

From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) and βλέπω (blépō, “to look at”).

Words from the same roots

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