ἀμβλυωπία

ᾰ̓μβλῠωπός (ămblŭōpós, “dim-sighted”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), ultimately from ἀμβλύς (amblús, “blunt, dull”).

ᾰ̓μβλῠωπῐ́ᾱ • (ămblŭōpĭ́ā) f (genitive ᾰ̓μβλῠωπῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. dim-sightedness, blurred or distorted vision, myopia or astigmatism
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 3.31–33
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 374d
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard 847a.2
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 16.2.41
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.732c
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.452
   • Thessal. 167.10
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 57.2.4
   • 625 CE – 690 CE, Paul of Aegina, Medical Compendium in Seven Books 3.22.25

• ᾰ̓μβλῠωπητῐκός (ămblŭōpētĭkós) (Byzantine)
• ᾰ̓μβλῠωπῐάζω (ămblŭōpĭázō) (Byzantine)

• → New Latin: amblyōpia (learned)
  • → English: amblyopia (learned)
  • → Finnish: amblyopia (learned)
  • → French: amblyopie (learned)
  • → Italian: ambliopia (learned)
  • → Portuguese: ambliopia (learned)
  • → Russian: амблиопи́я (ambliopíja) (learned)
  • → Spanish: ambliopía (learned)

• “ἀμβλυωπία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμβλυωπία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)