estrabismo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.tɾɐˈbiʒ.mu/ [(i)ʃ.tɾɐˈβiʒ.mu]

  • Hyphenation: es‧tra‧bis‧mo

Noun

estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)

  1. (ophthalmology) strabismus; squint (inability to point both eyes to the same point)

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /estɾaˈbismo/ [es.t̪ɾaˈβ̞iz.mo]
  • Rhymes: -ismo
  • Syllabification: es‧tra‧bis‧mo

Noun

estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)

  1. strabismus
  2. 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

Further reading

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