eyedrop

eyedrop

See also: eye-drop and eye drop

English

Alternative forms

• eye-drop, eye drop

Etymology

eye +‎ drop. Compare West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), Dutch oogdrup (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”). Compare also German Augentropfen (“eyedrops”).

Noun

eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

1. (medicine) Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
2. (poetic) A tear.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v], line 88:

     My lord, I found the prince in the next room, / Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, / With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow / That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, / Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife / With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.

Hypernyms

• drop

Translations

eye medicine

Arabic: قَطْرَة عَيْن‎ f (qaṭrat ʿayn) Moroccan Arabic: تقطيرة العين‎ f (taqṭīrat el-ʕayn, taqṭīrat el-ʕīn) Chinese: Cantonese: 眼藥水, 眼药水 (ngaan5 joek6 seoi2) Mandarin: 眼藥水／眼药水 (zh) (yǎnyàoshuǐ) Czech: oční kapky f pl Danish: øjendråber c pl Finnish: silmätippa French: gouttes oculaires f pl German: Augentropfen (de) m Hungarian: szemcsepp (hu) Italian: collirio (it) Japanese: 目薬 (megusuri) Korean: 안약 (anyak) Portuguese: colírio m Spanish: colirio (es) m Tagalog: pamasla Turkish: göz damlası Volapük: logatof

References

• eyedrop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia