ab oculis

== Latin == === Alternative forms === aboculis, abocellus, abocellis, avocellus (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === Literally, “away from the eyes”. Possibly a calque of Gaulish exsops. === Adjective === ab oculīs (indeclinable) (Late Latin) blind 4th c. CE, Actus Vercellenses: ==== Descendants ==== Franco-Provençal: avogllo Old French: avogle, aveule Middle French: aveugle French: aveugle Haitian Creole: avèg Norman: aveugl'ye (Jèrriais) Picard: aveûle, aveûgue Walloon: aveule === References === "abocellus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) aboculus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “abocellus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 5/2 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ab oculis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, pages 35–37