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Optic

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means relating to vision, light, or the eye
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Stage 1 of 2
optikos
Greek · ancient
"relating to sight"
relating to sight, from ops (eye)
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Stage 2 of 2
optic
English · 1500s
"relating to vision or the eye"
settled as the word for anything relating to vision or the eye
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