blepharoplasty

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English blepharo-

Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō

Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?

Ancient Greek πλᾰ́σσω (plắssō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)

Ancient Greek πλᾰστός (plăstós)der.

English -plasty

English blepharoplasty

From blepharo- + -plasty.

Noun

blepharoplasty (plural blepharoplasties)

1. (surgery) Plastic surgery on the eyelids to improve vision or for cosmetic reasons.

   Synonym: (colloquial) bleph

   • 2025 August 16, Emma Jacobs, “Would you pay $200,000 to look half your age?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

     This trend, which he attributes to social media and describes as “beautification” rather than a desire to turn back the years, might involve a blepharoplasty or removing buccal fat (between the cheek and jaw bones.)

Derived terms

• blepharoplastic

Translations

plastic surgery on the eyelid

• Bulgarian: блеферопластика f (bleferoplastika)
• Catalan: blefaroplàstia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重瞼術 / 重睑术 (chóngjiǎnshù), 割雙眼皮 / 割双眼皮 (gēshuāngyǎnpí), 雙眼皮手術 / 双眼皮手术 (shuāngyǎnpí shǒushù)

• Czech: blefaroplastika f
• Finnish: blepharoplastia, silmäluomien muovausleikkaus
• French: blépharoplastie (fr) f
• German: Augenlidplastik f, Lidplastik f, Blepharoplastik f
• Icelandic: augnaloksviðgerð f, augnaloksgerð f
• Italian: blefaroplastica (it) f
• Polish: plastyka powiek f
• Portuguese: blefaroplastia (pt) f
• Russian: блефаропла́стика (ru) f (blefaroplástika)
• Spanish: blefaroplastia (es) f
• Swedish: ögonlocksplastik (sv) c, blepharoplastik c
• Turkish: blefaroplasti
• Ukrainian: блефаропла́стика f (blefaroplástyka)

References

• “blepharoplasty”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.