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Latin
Etymology
Literally, “away from the eyes”. Possibly a calque of Gaulish exsops.
Adjective
ab oculīs (indeclinable) (Late Latin)
- blind
- 4th c. CE, Actus Vercellenses:
[…] iacentibus autem nobis solae illae viduae stabant, quae erant ab oculis.- But when we were lying down, those widows, who were blind, stood alone.
Descendants
References
- abocellus 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)
- aboculus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “abocellus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 5/2
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ab oculis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, pages 35–37