occi

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔtt͡ʃi/

occi m

1. plural of òcciu

From Old French ocire, from Vulgar Latin *aucidere, from Latin occīdō, occīdere, from ob (“towards; facing”) + caedō (“I cut”).

occi

1. (Jersey) to kill

• tuer

• occhji (Castelsardo)

From Vulgar Latin oclus, syncopated form of Latin oculus (“eye”).

• (Turritan) IPA^(key): /ˈott͡ʃi/^[1]
• (Sedini) IPA^(key): /ˈɔtt͡ʃi/^[1]

occi m (invariable)

1. (anatomy) eye

   Holonym: fàccia

   Meronyms: archu di l'occi, biancu di l'occi, isthicca, rètina

   • 1863 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter I, in Giovanni Spano, transl., Lu càntiggu de li càntigghi di Salamoni [Solomon's canticle of canticles]‎, London, translation of Il cantico de' cantici (in Italian), verse 14, page 6:

     Tu sei veramenti bedda, o amigga meja, veramenti bedda: l’ occi toi sò di culombi.

     [Bella veramente sei tu, o mia diletta: bella veramente se’ tu, gli occhi tuoi son di colomba.]

     You are very beautiful, o lover of mine, very beautiful. Your eyes are those of doves.

   • c. 19^th century, anonymous author, “”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 21, pages 101–102:

     No taldà più, molti cara,
     Sàrrami l’occi ti pregu, ¶ Già chi in la luzi ciara
     Soggu oggi cun l’occi ceggu,
     Mòltraddi amigga cun meggu
     Fin’a videmmi intarraddu.

     Please don't be late any longer, dear Death; please close my eyes. Already here, in the clear light, today I am with a blind eye. Prove yourself a friend to me until you see me buried.

   • 1957, Salvator Ruju, “Abà ch'è ischurighendi [Now that it's getting dark]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 347:

     Abà ch'è ischurighendi,
     e l’ócci di lu sòri s’è cuadu
     in fond’a l’aribari,
     mi posu aizaréddu
     inòghi i l’utturinu.

     Now that it's getting dark, and the sun's eye has hidden itself at the end of the olive grove, I'll sit down for a bit, here on the path.

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Lauda (29 abriri 1945) [Praise (April 29, 1945)]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 195:

     Fammi vidé l’occi, mòsthrami li mani

     Let me see your eyes, show me your hands

2. (botany) bud

   Synonyms: buttoni, gemma

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes