optician

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin opticusbor.

French optique

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus

Latin -iānus

Old French -ien

Middle French -ien

French -ien

French opticienbor.

English optician

Borrowed from French opticien.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒpˈtɪʃən/, [ɒpˈtʰɪʃən] ~ [ɒpˈtʰɪʃn̩]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑpˈtɪʃən/, [ɑpˈtʰɪʃən] ~ [ɑpˈtʰɪʃn̩]
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: op‧ti‧cian

Noun

optician (plural opticians)

1. A person who makes, dispenses or sells lenses, spectacles.
2. (UK) A person trained and skilled in examining and testing the eyes for defects, in order to prescribe corrective lenses or treatment; an optometrist.

Derived terms

• opticianry

Related terms

• ophthalmologist
• optometrist

Translations

a person who makes or sells lenses, spectacles

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: optik, gözlükçü
• Belarusian: оптык m (óptyk)
• Catalan: òptic (ca) m, òptica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眼鏡商 / 眼镜商 (yǎnjìngshāng), 配鏡師 / 配镜师 (pèijìngshī), 配鏡人員 / 配镜人员

• Czech: optik m
• Danish: optiker (da) c
• Dutch: opticien (nl) m
• Esperanto: optikisto
• Estonian: optik
• Finnish: optikko (fi)
• French: opticien (fr) m
• German: Optiker (de) m, Optikerin (de) f
• Greek: οπτικός (el) c (optikós)
• Hungarian: látszerész (hu), optikus (hu)
• Icelandic: sjóntækjafræðingur, gleraugnabúð
• Irish: radharceolaí m
• Japanese: 眼鏡屋 (meganeya)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: opticien m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: optiker m

  Nynorsk: optikar m

• Plautdietsch: Brellenhendla m
• Polish: optyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: oculista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: optician (ro) m, opticiană (ro) f
• Russian: о́птик (ru) m (óptik), окули́ст (ru) m (okulíst), окули́стка (ru) f (okulístka)
• Spanish: óptico (es) m, óptica (es) f
• Swedish: optiker (sv) c
• Turkish: gözlükçü (tr), optisyen (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: optegwr m, optegydd m

Further reading

• optician on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cation-pi

Romanian

Alternative forms

• оптичиан (optician) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French opticien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op.ti.t͡ʃiˈan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: op‧ti‧ci‧an

Noun

optician m (plural opticieni, feminine equivalent opticiană)

1. optician

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	optician	opticianul	opticieni	opticienii
genitive-dative	optician	opticianului	opticieni	opticienilor
vocative	opticianule		opticienilor

Further reading

• “optician”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026