oculogyric
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the rotation of the eyeballs within their orbits.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin oculus Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English oculo- English gyro- Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English oculogyric From oculo- + gyro- + -ic.
Phrases
oculogyric crisis