κιάλι
Greek
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian occhiali (“eyeglasses”), the apheresis perhaps resulting via crasis of article το (to) with an earlier Byzantine Greek ὀκκιάλιν (okkiálin).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editκιάλι • (kiáli) n
- scope, telescope, spyglass, field glass; a portable optical instrument containing a lens used for magnification to see distant objects
- (in the plural) See κιάλια (kiália, “binoculars, spyglasses, opera glasses”).
Declension
editDeclension of κιάλι
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- κιάλι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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