glaucoma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γλαύκωμα (glaúkōma, “an opacity of the crystalline lens”), derived from γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡlɔːˈkəʊmə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡlɔːˈkoʊmə/, /ɡlaʊˈkoʊmə/

glaucoma (countable and uncountable, plural glaucomas or glaucomata)

1. (pathology) An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.

• glaucomatous

• IPA^(key): /ɡlawˈkɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: glau‧cò‧ma

glaucoma m (plural glaucomi)

1. (pathology) glaucoma

From Ancient Greek γλαύκωμα (glaúkōma).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡlau̯ˈkoː.ma/, [ɡɫ̪äu̯ˈkoːmä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡlau̯ˈko.ma/, [ɡläu̯ˈkɔːmä]

glaucōma n (genitive glaucōmatis); third declension

1. dimming of the vitreous body in the eye, glaucoma
2. chicanery, con game, swack
   • 1662, Ladislaus Listius (1628–1663), Cladis Mohachianae [The Fall of Mohács], volume 2, page 48:

     Id quoque quod de demolitionibus et disjectionibus Palancarum in eadem cum turca transactum clausumque est, in grande enormeque dedecus et damnum patriae nostrae vergit. Nam sub vocabulo destructionis Palancarum nihil aliud latet (licet istud suae sangvinariae malitiae glaucoma admodum tenui explicationis caliptra tegere studiant), quam exterminatio militum hajdonum trans-Tibiscum locatorum.

     This also what of demolition and dishevelment of the palankas has been wrought and finessed with the Turk, sets a great and enormous disgrace and wound to our fatherland. For under the concept of a destruction of the palankas nothing is hidden (though they strive to cover this swack of their thugduggery by spreading the thin headscarf of unfolding a story) but the extermination of the hajduk soldiers sent forth over Tibiscum.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

glaucoma m (plural glaucomas)

1. (pathology) glaucoma (eye disease)

• glauco

glaucoma m (plural glaucomas)

1. glaucoma

• “glaucoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014