English → Latin
“blear” in Latin
lippiōto have bleary, rheumy, watery or inflamed eyes; to water, tear uplippushaving bleary, watery, rheumy or inflamed eyes; half-sighted, mope-eyed, purblind, myopic; blind to one's own faults
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
blear
A blear eye, oculus humore fluens; oculus lippiens (as a permanent defect). To have blear eyes, lippire. Blear eyed, lippus, lippiena.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for blear?
- The usual Latin words for “blear” are lippiō, lippus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.