aegilops

• ægilops

From Latin aegilōps, from Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “haver-grass (Aegilops neglecta)”).

aegilops (plural aegilopses)

1. An ulcer or fistula in the inner angle of the eye.
   • 1823, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 6th edition, volume 2, page 205:

     If the ægilops be neglected, it bursts, and degenerates into a fistula, which eats into the bone.

   • 1829, Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia: or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, And Practical Mechanics, Volume I: A to America,

     If the ægilops be accompanied with an inflammation, it is supposed to take its rise from the abundance of blood, which a plethoric habit discharges on the corner of the eye.

   • 1846, Paulus Aegineta, translated by Francis Adams, The Seven Books of Paulus Ægineta, volume 2, page 284:

     The ægilops is an apostematous swelling between the great canthus and the nose ; and it is an affection difficult to cure, owing to the thinness of the bodies, and the fear of injuring the eye by sympathy.

2. (obsolete) Goatgrass (Aegilops spp.) or other grass found as a corn-weed.

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• spoilage

• aegilōpa f (Medieval form)

From Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps).

aegilōps m (genitive aegilōpos); third declension

1. goatgrass (Aegilops spp.)
2. valonia (Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis)
3. An ulcer or fistula in the inner angle of the eye.

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

• → Translingual: Aegilops
• → English: aegilops
• → French: égilope

• “aegilops”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aegilops in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.