ophthalmological en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English ophthalmology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English ophthalmological From ophthalmology + -ical.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to ophthalmology.
But even when his mistakes and failures are to be explained in ophthalmological or optical terms, this fact does not by itself prove the disheartening general proposition that nobody’s eyes are ever any good for anything, with its tacitly implied rider that no proof-readers can really find out for certain whether there are misprints on a page or not. The existence of disabilities is evidence against and not in favour of the non-existence of abilities.
1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 97 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
Deriveds
neuroophthalmological · ophthalmologically · teleophthalmological
Translations (14)
ro oftalmologic (pertaining to ophthalmology) · nl oogheelkundig (pertaining to ophthalmology) · pl okulistyczny (pertaining to ophthalmology) · sq oftalmologjík (pertaining to ophthalmology) · it oftalmologico (pertaining to ophthalmology) · nl oftalmologisch (pertaining to ophthalmology) · cs oftalmologický (pertaining to ophthalmology) · ca oftalmològic (pertaining to ophthalmology) · pt oftalmológico (pertaining to ophthalmology) · es oftalmológico (pertaining to ophthalmology) · gl oftalmolóxico (pertaining to ophthalmology) · sk oftalmologický (pertaining to ophthalmology) · fr ophtalmologique (pertaining to ophthalmology) · pl oftalmologiczny (pertaining to ophthalmology)