estrabismo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.tɾaˈbiz.mu/, /es.tɾaˈbiz.mu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.tɾaˈbiʒ.mu/, /eʃ.tɾaˈbiʒ.mu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.tɾaˈbiz.mo/

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

Hyphenation: es‧tra‧bis‧mo

Noun

estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)

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

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)

strabismus
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

“estrabismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024