ocelo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ocellus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈsɛ.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈsɛ.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈsɛ.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈsɛ.lu/

Noun

ocelo m (plural ocelos)

1. (zoology) eye (mark on an animal resembling an eye)
2. (zoology) the eye of arthropods

Further reading

• “ocelo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ocellus.

Noun

ocelo m (plural ocelos)

1. (zoology) eye (mark on an animal resembling an eye)
2. (zoology) the eye of arthropods

Further reading

• “ocelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014