oculus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin oculus (“eye”). Doublet of occhio. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒk.jʊ.ləs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑk.jə.ləs/ Rhymes: -ɒkjʊləs === Noun === oculus (plural oculi) (architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye). The central boss of a volute. An opening at the apex of a dome. ==== Translations ==== === References === “oculus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “oculus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. == French == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin oculus. Doublet of œil. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔ.ky.lys/ === Noun === oculus m (invariable) oculus === Further reading === “oculus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Alternative forms === oclus (proscribed) === Etymology === From the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”) with the diminutive suffix -ulus. Compare Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi, “eye”), Ancient Greek ὄσσε (ósse, “eyes”), ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.ku.lus] === Noun === oculus m (genitive oculī); second declension (literally, anatomy) eye Synonym: (Ecclesiastical Latin) palpebra (transferred sense): sight, vision (poetic, literary) luminary of the sun and stars spot resembling an eye, such as on a peacock feather (botany): eye, bud, bourgeon bud, bulb or knob on many roots, on the reed, etc. great houseleek Synonym: aizōum majus (figuratively): principal ornament eye of the soul, mind's eye ==== Inflection ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== oculāriārius oculāre oculāriter oculāta ==== Descendants ==== (All inherited forms are via the syncopated form oclus, already attested in the Appendix Probi.) === References === === Further reading === “oculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “oculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "oculus", 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) “oculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “oculus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2]