The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτράχωμα“roughness”
- New Latin · borrowed fromtrachōma
- English todaytrachoma
From New Latin trachōma, from Ancient Greek τράχωμα (trákhōma, “roughness”), from τρᾱχύς (trākhús, “rough”) + -ωμα (-ōma).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.