pupilla

Borrowed from Latin pupilla.^[1][2]

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

pupilla (plural pupillák)

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

   Synonym: szembogár

• 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

• popilla (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin pupilla. (both senses).

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”)

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.

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

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

First-declension noun.

• pūpillus

• “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