# optic
## English
### Alternative forms

* optick, optique (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French optique or Medieval Latin opticus, from Ancient Greek ὀπτῐκός (optikós, “of or for sight”), from ὀπτός (optós, “visible”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒp.tɪk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑp.tɪk/
* Rhymes: -ɒptɪk

### Adjective

optic (not comparable)
* (relational) Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
* (optics, relational) Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.

#### Derived terms

* acoustooptic
* acousto-optic effect
* biooptic
* electrooptic
* entoptic
* fiberoptic
* fibre optic
* fluoroptic
* holoptic
* hyperoptic
* magnetooptic
* monoptic
* optical
* optic axis
* optic chiasm
* optic chiasma
* optic cup
* optic disc
* optic disk
* optic foramen
* opticist
* optic nerve
* optic neuritis
* optico-
* optic yellow
* panoptic
* paroptic
* perioptic
* piezooptic
* plenoptic
* postoptic
* preoptic
* stereoptic
* suboptic
* supraoptic

#### Translations
### Noun

optic (plural optics)
* (archaic, humorous) An eye.
** 1734, Alexander Pope, Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham:The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
** 1819, Lord Byron, “Canto 1”, in Don Juan, section 46:how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know […]
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter 8, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
* (optics) A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
** 2013, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 4, →DOI, page 270:The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
* (trademark in UK) A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.
** 2014, M. P. Wright, Heartman:They were neatly lined up on three shelves between the optics of martini, vodka, whisky and gin.
** 2018, Denise Mina, Exile:They pulled up two bar stools and looked around the room as the barman relieved the whisky optic of its contents.

#### Derived terms

* optic stand

#### Translations
### References

* “optic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “optic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Further reading

* Alcoholic spirits measure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “optic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “optic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “optic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* -topic, cop it, picot, topic

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French optique.

### Adjective

optic m or n (feminine singular optică, masculine plural optici, feminine and neuter plural optice)
* optic