English

epitarsus

From epi- + tarsus.

Formed from epi- + tarsus

Proto-Indo-European *h₁épi ‘on’

Proto-Hellenic *epí

Ancient Greek ἐπί ‘on, upon’

English epi-

Ancient Greek τᾰρσός ‘the flat of the foot’

New Latin tarsus ‘the flat part of the foot’

Today it means

noun A fold of conjunctiva on the surface of the tarsus of the eye

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