pupilla

See also: pupil·la

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pupilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpupilːɒ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧pil‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Noun

pupilla (plural pupillák)

1. (anatomy) pupil (the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye)

   Synonym: szembogár

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pupilla	pupillák
accusative	pupillát	pupillákat
dative	pupillának	pupilláknak
instrumental	pupillával	pupillákkal
causal-final	pupilláért	pupillákért
translative	pupillává	pupillákká
terminative	pupilláig	pupillákig
essive-formal	pupillaként	pupillákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pupillában	pupillákban
superessive	pupillán	pupillákon
adessive	pupillánál	pupilláknál
illative	pupillába	pupillákba
sublative	pupillára	pupillákra
allative	pupillához	pupillákhoz
elative	pupillából	pupillákból
delative	pupilláról	pupillákról
ablative	pupillától	pupilláktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	pupilláé	pupilláké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pupilláéi	pupillákéi

Possessive forms of pupilla
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pupillám	pupilláim
2nd person sing.	pupillád	pupilláid
3rd person sing.	pupillája	pupillái
1st person plural	pupillánk	pupilláink
2nd person plural	pupillátok	pupilláitok
3rd person plural	pupillájuk	pupilláik

Derived terms

• pupillájú

 

Compound words

• pupillatágító
• pupillatágulat

 

Further reading

• pupilla in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Alternative forms

• popilla (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pupilla. (both senses).

Noun

pupilla f (plural pupille)

1. pupil (of the eye)
   • c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “Il corpo umano”, in G. Fumagalli, editor, Leonardo Prosatore, scelta di scritti Vinciani, Milan: Albrighi, published 1915, →OCLC, page 115:

     La pupilla dell’occhio si muta in tante varie grandezze, quanto son le varietà delle chiarezze e oscurità delli obbietti che dinanzi se li rappresentano.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. female equivalent of pupillo (“ward”)

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of pūpula, itself a diminutive of pūpa, equivalent to pūpa +‎ -illa. The transferred anatomical meaning is part of a strong cross-linguistic tendency, in reference to the small reflected image of oneself seen when looking into someone's eye.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puːˈpil.la/, [puːˈpɪlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /puˈpil.la/, [puˈpilːä]

Noun

pūpilla f (genitive pūpillae); first declension

1. diminutive of pūpula:
   1. an underage orphan, female ward
   2. (transferred sense, anatomy) the pupil of the eye

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūpilla	pūpillae
Genitive	pūpillae	pūpillārum
Dative	pūpillae	pūpillīs
Accusative	pūpillam	pūpillās
Ablative	pūpillā	pūpillīs
Vocative	pūpilla	pūpillae

Related terms

• pūpillus

Descendants

• → Catalan: pupil·la
• → English: pupil
• → French: pupille
• → Italian: pupilla
• → Portuguese: pupila
• → Sicilian: pupiḍḍa
• → Spanish: pupila

References

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