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6-letter words (1 found)

OCULUS,

5-letter words (2 found)

CLOUS,LOCUS,

4-letter words (7 found)

CLOU,COLS,LOUS,SCUL,SOUL,SULU,ULUS,

3-letter words (9 found)

COL,COS,LOS,LOU,OUS,SOC,SOL,SOU,ULU,

2-letter words (5 found)

LO,OS,OU,SO,US,

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Definitions and meaning of oculus

oculus

Etymology

Borrowed 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)

  1. (architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
    1. The central boss of a volute.
    2. 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

Noun

oculus m (plural oculus)

  1. 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) IPA(key): /ˈo.ku.lus/, [ˈɔkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.ku.lus/, [ˈɔːkulus]

Noun

oculus m (genitive oculī); second declension

  1. (literally, anatomy) eye
    Synonym: (Ecclesiastical Latin) palpebra
  2. (transferred sense):
    1. sight, vision
    2. (poetic, literary) luminary of the sun and stars
    3. spot resembling an eye, such as on a peacock feather
    4. (botany):
      1. eye, bud, bourgeon
      2. bud, bulb or knob on many roots, on the reed, etc.
      3. great houseleek
        Synonym: aizōum majus
  3. (figuratively):
    1. principal ornament
    2. 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’s 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]

Source: wiktionary.org