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Latin
Etymology
Late Latin; hybrid compound of Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only”) + oculus (“eye”).
Noun
monoculus m (genitive monoculī); second declension
- (Late Latin) a one-eyed man
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “monoculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- monoculus 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)
- monoculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- monoculus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016