Word Origin Summary

Βλέφαρον is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *gʷlep-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• blefaroplastia

  Spanish · derived from

• Ablepharus

  Translingual · derived from

• blepharon

  Latin · borrowed from

• βλέφαρο

  Greek · inherited from

• blepharon

  English · derived from

• blepharo-

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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