estrabismo
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: es‧tra‧bis‧mo
Noun edit
estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)
- (ophthalmology) strabismus; squint (inability to point both eyes to the same point)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós, “(action of) squinting”), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting, squint-eyed”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ-, whence Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”) and στρεβλός (streblós, “twisted”).
Noun edit
estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)
- a defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint
- strabismus
Further reading edit
- “estrabismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014