presbicia

Spanish

Etymology

From French presbyte (“farsighted”) +‎ -ia, from Ancient Greek πρέσβυς (présbus, “old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾesˈbiθja/ [pɾezˈβ̞i.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾesˈbisja/ [pɾezˈβ̞i.sja]
• Rhymes: -iθja
• Rhymes: -isja
• Syllabification: pres‧bi‧cia

Noun

presbicia f (plural presbicias)

1. (medicine) presbyopia

See also

• presbicia on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Further reading

• “presbicia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28