estrabismo
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: es‧tra‧bis‧mo
=== Noun ===
estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)
(ophthalmology) strabismus; squint (inability to point both eyes to the same point)
=== Further reading ===
“estrabismo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“estrabismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025