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ocular

English

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Etymology

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Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒk.jə.lə/, /ˈɒk.jʊ.lə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.kjə.lɚ/, /ˈɑ.kjʊ.lɚ/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

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ocular (comparative more ocular, superlative most ocular)

  1. Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight
    The medication may have adverse ocular side effects.
    It took some time after he lost his eye for him to receive his ocular prosthesis.
    • 1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Behavior”, in The Conduct of Life‎[1], Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 156:
      The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.
  2. Resembling the eye.
    ocular markings on the wings of a butterfly
  3. Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
      Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
      Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:
      Or by the worth of man’s eternal soul,
      Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
      Than answer my waked wrath!
    • 1692, Robert South, “A Discourse concerning Our Saviour’s Resurrection”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions‎[2], 6th edition, volume V, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 171:
      For as Thomas was an ocular Witness of Christ’s Death and Burial, so were the other Disciples of his Resurrection; having actually seen him after he was risen.
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC, page 300:
      […] I should have been apt to think, that the young gentlewomen and Mr. Lovelace were of longer acquaintance than yesterday. For he, by stealth, as it were, cast glances sometimes at them, which they returned; and, on my ocular notice, their eyes fell, as I may say, under my eye, as if they could not stand its examination.
    • 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Edward Randolph’s Portrait”, in Twice-Told Tales‎[3], volume 2, Boston: James Munroe, page 32:
      Captain Lincoln proceeded to relate some of the strange fables and fantasies, which, as it was impossible to refute them by ocular demonstration, had grown to be articles of popular belief, in reference to this old picture.
    • 1849 October 20, Nathaniel Parker Willis, “Death of Edgar Poe”, in Home Journal‎[4]:
      Suddenly starting from a proposition, exactly and sharply defined, in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness, he rejected the forms of customary logic, and by a crystalline process of accretion, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur, […]

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Noun

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ocular (plural oculars)

  1. The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument.
  2. Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin oculāris.

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Adjective

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ocular m or f (masculine and feminine plural oculars)

  1. ocular

Noun

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ocular m (plural oculars)

  1. eyepiece, eyeglass
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Galician

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin oculāris.

Adjective

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ocular m or f (plural oculares)

  1. ocular, pertaining to the eyes

Noun

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ocular m (plural oculares)

  1. eyepiece, eyeglass
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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin oculāris.

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ocular m or f (plural oculares)

  1. ocular, pertaining to the eyes

Noun

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ocular m (plural oculares)

  1. eyepiece, eyeglass

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French oculaire, from Latin ocularius.

Adjective

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ocular m or n (feminine singular oculară, masculine plural oculari, feminine and neuter plural oculare)

  1. ocular

Declension

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Declension of ocular
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite ocular oculară oculari oculare
definite ocularul oculara ocularii ocularele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite ocular oculare oculari oculare
definite ocularului ocularei ocularilor ocularelor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin oculāris.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /okuˈlaɾ/ [o.kuˈlaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: o‧cu‧lar

Adjective

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ocular m or f (masculine and feminine plural oculares)

  1. ocular

Derived terms

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Noun

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ocular m (plural oculares)

  1. eyepiece, eyeglass
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