óculo
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Portuguese
Folded spectacles with bicolour frame (#1)
oculus (#2)
Barack Obama looking through the Oval Office door peephole (#3)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin oculus (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-. Doublet of olho, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ó‧cu‧lo
Noun
óculo m (plural óculos)
- (chiefly in the plural) glasses, (formal) spectacles, (US) eyeglass
- (architecture) oculus
- Consegue-se vislumbrar o céu através do óculo do Panteão de Roma.
- One can glimpse the sky through the oculus of the Pantheon of Rome.
- peephole, (UK) spyhole
- Synonym: olho mágico
Descendants
- Macanese: oclo
Further reading
- “óculo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “óculo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “óculo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin oculus. Doublet of ojo, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
Noun
óculo m (plural óculos)
- (architecture) oculus (round or oval window)
Further reading
- “óculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28