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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish spécla, from Latin speculum (“mirror”).
Pronunciation
Noun
spéacla m (genitive singular spéacla, nominative plural spéaclaí)
- eyeglass
- (in the plural) eyeglasses, spectacles
Declension
Derived terms
- leathspéacla m (“one lens of a pair of spectacles; eyeglass, monocle”)
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “spéacla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spécla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language