ocellus

English

Etymology

From Latin ocellus (“little eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əʊˈsɛləs/

Noun

ocellus (plural ocelli)

1. A simple eye consisting of a single lens and a small number of sensory cells.
2. An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.

Related terms

• ocellar
• ocellary
• ocellated
• ocellation
• ocelloid

 

Translations

simple eye consisting of a single lens

• Bulgarian: просто око n (prosto oko)
• Catalan: ocel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 单眼 (zh) (dānyǎn)

• Finnish: pistesilmä (fi)
• French: ocelle (fr) m
• German: Augenfleck m, Ozelle (de) f
• Hungarian: pontszem (hu)
• Icelandic: depilauga n
• Irish: súileog f
• Polish: przyoczko n, oczko (pl) n
• Spanish: ocelo (es) m

eye-like marking in the form of a spot or ring

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眼斑

• French: ocelle (fr) m

Further reading

• ocellus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cuellos, locules

Latin

Etymology

From oculus (“eye”) +‎ -lus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈkel.lus/, [ɔˈkɛlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈt͡ʃel.lus/, [oˈt͡ʃɛlːus]

Noun

ocellus m (genitive ocellī); second declension

1. diminutive of oculus: little eye
2. darling

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ocellus	ocellī
Genitive	ocellī	ocellōrum
Dative	ocellō	ocellīs
Accusative	ocellum	ocellōs
Ablative	ocellō	ocellīs
Vocative	ocelle	ocellī

Descendants

• Catalan: ocel
• → English: ocellus
• French: ocelle
• Galician: ocelo
• Italian: ocello
• Portuguese: ocelo
• Spanish: ocelo

References

• “ocellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ocellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ocellus 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)
• ocellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ocellus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ocellus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray