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French
Etymology
From Middle French pupille (14th c.), a borrowing from Latin pupillus, pupilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py.pij/, (less often) /py.pil/
Noun
pupille f (plural pupilles)
- pupil (of the eye)
Noun
pupille m or f by sense (plural pupilles)
- an orphan under guardianship, a ward
Descendants
Further reading
Italian
Noun
pupille f
- plural of pupilla
Latin
Noun
pūpille
- vocative singular of pūpillus
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pupilla.
Noun
pupille oblique singular, m (oblique plural pupilles, nominative singular pupilles, nominative plural pupille)
- orphan (child of whom both the parents have died)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pupille, supplement)