lente

es-noun

lente m or f same meaning (plural lentes)

lente m or f same meaning (canonical)
lentes (plural)

Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens". Cognate with English lens.

(chiefly in the plural, Latin America) glasses, (formal) spectacles, (US) eyeglass


lens

head

lens (definite accusative lensi, plural lensler)

lensi (accusative definite)
lensler (plural)
lens (nominative singular)
lensler (nominative plural)
lensi (accusative definite singular)
lensleri (accusative definite plural)
lense (dative singular)
lenslere (dative plural)
lenste (locative singular)
lenslerde (locative plural)
lensten (ablative singular)
lenslerden (ablative plural)
lensin (genitive singular)
lenslerin (genitive plural)

From English lens; ultimately from Latin lēns.


עדשה

he-noun

עֲדָשָׁה • (adashá) f (plural indefinite עֲדָשׁוֹת, singular construct עַדְשַׁת־)

עֲדָשָׁה (canonical)
adashá (romanization)
עֲדָשׁוֹת (indefinite plural)
עַדְשַׁת־ (construct singular)

Root
 ע־ד־שׁ (ʿ-d-sh)
 0 terms
Compare Arabic عَدَس (ʕadas, “lentil”) and Arabic عَدَسَة (ʕadasa, “lens”).

(optics) lens (an object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it)

(anatomy) lens (the transparent crystalline structure in the eye)


mi

Sino-Vietnamese word from 眉 (“eyebrows”). Doublet of mày. Probably unrelated to mí (“eyelid”).


mi

From Proto-Vietic *miː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *miiʔ. This is the native form in the Central dialects, Northern and Southern dialects borrowed this neutral pronoun with added hostile connotation, probably due to their native mày/mầy.

mầy

originally Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, now chiefly Nẫu

(chiefly Central Vietnam, derogatory in other dialects) you (second person singular pronoun, referring to a peer or person held in low esteem)


mi

đô, rê, mi

(music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)


white

en-adj

white (comparative whiter or more white, superlative whitest or most white)

whiter (comparative)
more white (comparative)
whitest (superlative)
most white (superlative)

Bislama: waet

Sranan Tongo: weti

Aukan: weti

Saramaccan: wéti

Tok Pisin: wait

→ Japanese: ホワイト (howaito)

white fella

⇒ Nyunga: wadjela

white gin

⇒ Gamilaraay: waatyin

⇒ Ngiyambaa: wadjiin

⇒ Wiradjuri: waajin

Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
Cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).

cog

(sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.


stye

First recorded in the 17th century; probably a back-formation from Middle English styanye (first recorded in the 15th century), which in turn comes from Old English stīgend (“a small tumour on the edge of the eyelid, stye”), from the verb stīgan (“to climb, ascend, rise”) + Middle English eie (“eye”). Equivalent to sty + eye.

der

have a stye

suffer from a stye

(pathology) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

ulcior

bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid


contact lens

⇒ Cantonese: con (kon¹, “contact lens”)

A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles, or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically.


ai

Sapos yutupela i kaikai pikinini bilong dispela diwai, bai ai bilong yutupela i op na yutupela i kisim save long wanem samting i gutpela, na wanem samting i nogut, na bai yutupela i kamap wankain olsem God. God i save long dispela, olsem na em i tambuim yutupela long kaikai pikinini bilong dispela diwai.”

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:5:


eyelid

From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, equivalent to eye + lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”).
Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).

By his neeſings a light doth ſhine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 41:18, column 2:

[…] the frightened or insane eyes of an animal, sometimes with eyelids closed in escapeful slumber.

2000, Joshua P. Warren, The Evil in Asheville, page 246:

Allergan, the company that turned an obscure muscle paralyzer for eyelid spasms, Botox, into a blockbuster wrinkle smoother, hopes to perform cosmetic alchemy yet again.

2009 January 14, Natasha Singer, “Love the Eyelashes. Who Is Your Doctor?”, in The New York Times:

A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.

ooglid

anatomy: a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye


goggles

Probably from goggle, from the appearance it gives the wearer.


narrow

en-adj

narrow (comparative narrower, superlative narrowest)

narrower (comparative)
narrowest (superlative)

From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”).
Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Nehrung (“spit, narrow peninsula”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic narrow- (“njörva-”, in compounds).

cog

(phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.

suppea

phonetics: formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate


flor

English: floor

desc

Scots: flure, fluir, flair, fleur, fleer

From Old English flōr, from Proto-West Germanic *flōru, *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros.

whos wynewing cloþ is in his hond .· ⁊ he ſchal fulli clenſe his coꝛn flooꝛ / and he ſchal gadere his wheete in to his berne .· but þe chaf he ſchal bꝛenne wiþ fier þat mai not be quenchid

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 3:12, page 2r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

His winnowing fan is in his hand; he'll fully clean his threshing-floor, he'll gather up his wheat into his barn, and he'll burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

A flat area or platform (often for preparation)


humour

English: humour (see there for further descendants)

Scots: humour

From Old French humor, from Latin hūmor, ūmor.

A "cardinal humour" (four liquids believed to affect health and mood)

A bodily liquid or substance that is caused by disease.

One of the two (usually reckoned as three or four) fluidous portions of the eye.

Any fluid; something which flows or moves in a fluidous manner:

The liquid contained within a plant; plant juices.

(rare) A liquid of the human body (e.g. blood)


cyngiel

cyngle (nominative plural)
cyngli (genitive plural)
cynglom (dative plural)
cyngle (accusative plural)
cynglami (instrumental plural)
cynglach (locative plural)
cyngle (plural vocative)


Auge

de-noun

Auge n (mixed, genitive Auges, plural Augen, diminutive Äugelchen n or Äuglein n or Äugelein n)

Auges (genitive)
Augen (plural)
Äugelchen (diminutive neuter)
Äuglein (diminutive neuter)
Äugelein (diminutive neuter)
Auge (nominative singular)
Augen (definite nominative plural)
Auges (genitive singular)
Augen (definite genitive plural)
Auge (dative singular)
Augen (dative definite plural)
Auge (accusative singular)
Augen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ouge, from Old High German ouga, from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).
Modern cognates include Alemannic German Aug, Bavarian Aug, Dutch oog, English eye, Icelandic auga, Swedish öga.


neen

And mar her milk, Ise greet out bath my Neen.

1683, George Meriton, A Yorkshire Dialogue:


lid

English: lid

Scots: lid

From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.

The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.

The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.


glasses

Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.


eyeglasses

en-noun

eyeglasses pl (plural only, attributive eyeglass)

Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].

2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC:


pie-eyed

en-adj

pie-eyed (comparative more pie-eyed, superlative most pie-eyed)

more pie-eyed (comparative)
most pie-eyed (superlative)

From pie (“type of pastry consisting of an outer crust and a filling”) + eyed, a hyperbole suggesting that a person’s eyes are open so wide that they are as large as pies.

[H]ere I've been roosting all day long, with nothing to do but gaze at this bunch of would-be scribes grinding out jazz copy, and now, at half-past four, that pie-eyed zebra of a Sunday editor has to hand me an assignment about as concrete as a hunk of Hudson River mist; and I've got a date with Vita for supper at six.

1921 February, R. A. Chath, “The Phantom Call”, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Radio News, volume 8, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, →OCLC, page 537:

Of all the blockheads in the world, I have the finest collection working for me. Terence Tadpole is a dolt, Sidney Squirrel is a sentimental idiot, Freddie Fox is a pie-eyed fool, Felix Frog is a perfect imbecile.

1923 September 15, “Pat”, “Railway Supply Man’s Bedtime Story: Broadcasted from Station RYREV, Chicago. No. 23.”, in Willard A. Smith et al., editors, Railway Review, volume 73, Chicago, Ill.: Railway Review, →OCLC, page 404, column 1:

When the pie-eyed teens in the school hall, where I, decades before, had grasped the tendril with which I would swing out of Essex, like a tubby Tarzan, look to me full of X Factor ambition and Xbox distraction and tell me that they "want to be famous too," I wince, but I want to tell them they've been swindled. That they are being horribly misled by the dominant cultural narratives.

2014, Russell Brand, “Serenity Now”, in Revolution, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, pages 16–17:

(informal, originally US) With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed.

睜大眼睛的 /睁大眼睛的

with one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner


mince pie

Gorblimey, guvnor, I couldn't believe me mince pies!

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye.


panna

pl-noun

panna f (diminutive panienka, augmentative pannica or pannisko)

panienka (diminutive)
pannica (augmentative)
pannisko (augmentative)
panna (nominative singular)
panny (nominative plural)
panny (genitive singular)
panien (genitive plural)
pannie (dative singular)
pannom (dative plural)
pannę (accusative singular)
panny (accusative plural)
panną (instrumental singular)
pannami (instrumental plural)
pannie (locative singular)
pannach (locative plural)
panno (singular vocative)
panny (plural vocative)

(Near Masovian, anatomy) Synonym of źrenica


maj

From Proto-Oceanic *mata (“eye”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata (“eye, center, most important part”), from Proto-Austronesian *maCa (“eye, center, most important part”)


stella

la-noun

stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension

stēlla (canonical feminine)
stēllae (genitive)
stēlla (nominative singular)
stēllae (nominative plural)
stēllae (genitive singular)
stēllārum (genitive plural)
stēllae (dative singular)
stēllīs (dative plural)
stēllam (accusative singular)
stēllās (accusative plural)
stēllā (ablative singular)
stēllīs (ablative plural)
stēlla (singular vocative)
stēllae (plural vocative)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: isteddu, steddu m

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: steauã

Istro-Romanian: ste

Megleno-Romanian: steau̯ă

Romanian: stea

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: stella, stedda, stidda

Gallurese: stedda, istella, stella

Sassarese: isthella, sthella

Dalmatian: stala, stalla

Istriot: stila

Italian: stella, Stella

→ Sardinian: istella, stella

Neapolitan: stella

desctree

Sicilian: stiḍḍa, stidda (eye dialect), steḍḍa, stella (misspelled and Italianized)
→ Italian: Stidda
→ Maltese: stilla

Venetan: steła

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: stele

Ladin: stëila, stëra

Romansch: staila, steila, stéla

q

many via <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">stēla</i>

Gallo-Italic: (many via stēla)

Emilian: strèla

Lombard: stela

Ligurian: stela

Piedmontese: stèila, steila

all via <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">stēla</i>

Gallo-Romance: (all via stēla)

Catalan: estela, estel

Franco-Provençal: ètêla

Old French: estoile (see there for further descendants)

Occitan: estela

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: estrela

Asturian: estrella

Extremaduran: estrella

Leonese: estrella

Mirandese: streilha

Old Galician-Portuguese: estrela (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: estrella

→ Danish: Stella

→ Dutch: Stella

→ English: stella, Stella

→ Esperanto: stelo
Ido: stelo

→ Faroese: Stella

→ German: Stella

→ Icelandic: Stella

→ Interlingua: stella

desctree

→ Old Occitan: stella
Occitan: estela, estiala
Occitan: Estela
→ French: Estelle

→ Spanish: Estela

→ Swedish: Stella

→ Volapük: stel

[ˈs̠t̪eːlːʲä]

From Proto-Italic *stērlā, diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

stēla

late, attested in Anonymous Valesianus II


cataract

→ Cebuano: katarak

→ Marshallese: kōtrāāk

From Middle English cataract, cateract, cateracte, cataracta, from Latin cataracta (“waterfall, portcullis”), from Ancient Greek καταρράκτης (katarrháktēs), from καταράσσω (katarássō, “I pour down”), from κατα- (kata-, “down”) + ἀράσσω (arássō, “to strike, dash”). Its pathological sense probably came from its alternative sense in Latin, “portcullis”, through French through the notion of “obstruction”, in this case, of vision.

der

Rarely, a dense, swollen neglected cataract precipitates an angle-closure glaucoma.

1999, J. J. Gallo, J. Busby-Whitehead, W. Reichel, P. V. Rabins, R. A. Silliman, Reichel’s Care of the Elderly, page 563:

Shallow, this is what I created
Splayed out skeletons in the cracks in the pavement
And now, can you feel the injection back behind those cloudy eyes?
In-between every cataract, a projection of my life

2022, “Rotoscope”, performed by Spiritbox:

(pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.


eage

ēage (canonical neuter)
ēage (nominative singular)
ēagan (nominative plural)
ēage (accusative singular)
ēagan (accusative plural)
ēagan (genitive singular)
ēagena (genitive plural)
ēagan (dative singular)
ēagum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: eie, yȝe, ye, yë, yghe, eye, eȝhe, eȝe, eighe, eyghe, eyȝe, iȝe
English: eye
Sranan Tongo: ai
Geordie English: ee, eye
Scots: ee
Yola: ieen, eein, eeen, een, ein, eyen (plural)

From Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô.


palpebra

la-noun

palpebra f (genitive palpebrae); first declension

palpebrae (genitive)
palpebra (nominative singular)
palpebrae (nominative plural)
palpebrae (genitive singular)
palpebrārum (genitive plural)
palpebrae (dative singular)
palpebrīs (dative plural)
palpebram (accusative singular)
palpebrās (accusative plural)
palpebrā (ablative singular)
palpebrīs (ablative plural)
palpebra (singular vocative)
palpebrae (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Italian: palpetra, palpebra (latinized)

Sicilian: pàrpitra

North-Italian:

Friulian: palpiere

desc

Piedmontese: parpèira, parpèira, parpèra, palpèra, parpèla, parpaivre, parpaj

Venetan: palpiera, palpera

Gallo-Romance:

Aragonese: parpiello

Catalan: palpa, pàlpet, pàrpet, parpella, parpell, parpall, parpalla, pàrpol, parpre, pipella

French: paupière

Gascon: parpèra, perpèra

Occitan: parpèla

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: párpagu, párpadu

Galician: perfeba, perceba, prefreba

Spanish: párpado

Borrowings:

→ Catalan: palpebra

→ English: palpebra

→ Esperanto: palpebro

→ Galician: pálpebra

→ Ido: palpebro

→ Interlingua: palpebra

→ Middle English: palpebre

→ Portuguese: pálpebra

→ Romanian: palpebră

→ Spanish: pálpebra

From palpō (“to touch softly; to caress, flatter”) + -bra (instrumental noun suffix).

suffix

[ˈpäɫ̪pɛbrä]

(literal, usually in the plural) an eyelid


oculus

la-noun

oculus m (genitive oculī); second declension

oculī (genitive)
oculus (nominative singular)
oculī (nominative plural)
oculī (genitive singular)
oculōrum (genitive plural)
oculō (dative singular)
oculīs (dative plural)
oculum (accusative singular)
oculōs (accusative plural)
oculō (ablative singular)
oculīs (ablative plural)
ocule (singular vocative)
oculī (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: oclju

Megleno-Romanian: uocľu

Istro-Romanian: ocľu

Romanian: ochi

Dalmatian:

uaclo, vaclo

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: ochju

Italian: occhio

Neapolitan: uocchio

Tarantino: uècchije

Sassarese: occi

Sicilian: occhiu

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: ogru, ogu, oju, ogiu, ociu

Western Romance of N. Italy and environs:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: òć

Ligurian: éuggio, éuglio, éujo

Lombard: oeugg, oeugl

Piedmontese: eucc, euj

Romagnol: òcc

Friulian: voli

Istriot: uocio

Ladin: uedl

Romansch: egl, îgl, îl, ögl

Venetan: ocio

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: uely

Old French: ueil (see there for further descendants)

Occitano-Romance:

Old Occitan: olh
Occitan: uèlh

Catalan: ull

Aragonese: uello

Ibero-Romance:

Mozarabic: ולויש (wlwyš) (only the plural is attested)

Old Leonese: [Term?]

Asturian: güeyu

Leonese: gueyu

Mirandese: uolho

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: olho, ollo
Eonavian: oyo
Fala: ollu
Galician: ollo
Portuguese: olho (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: ojo

Ladino: ojo

Spanish: ojo (see there for further descendants)

Learned borrowings:

→ Catalan: òcul (learned)

→ Czech: okulus (learned)

→ English: oculus, Oculi (learned)

→ Esperanto: okulo (learned)
→ Ido: okulo

→ French: oculus (learned)

→ Romanian: oculus (learned)

→ German: Okuli (learned)

→ Interlingua: oculo (learned)

→ Italian: oculo (learned)

→ Portuguese: óculo, óculos (learned)

→ Spanish: óculo (learned)

→ Swedish: oculus (learned)

From the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”) with the diminutive suffix -ulus. Compare Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi, “eye”), Ancient Greek ὄσσε (ósse, “eyes”), ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”).

Quam diū quisquam erit quī tē dēfendēre audeat, vīvēs, et vīvēs ita ut nunc vīvis, multīs meīs et firmīs praesidiīs obsessus nē commōvēre tē contrā rem pūblicam possīs. Multōrum tē etiam oculī et aurēs nōn sentientem, sīcut adhūc fēcērunt, speculābuntur atque custōdient.

As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.

ā saeculō nōn audiērunt neque auribus percēpērunt oculus nōn vīdit Deus absque tē quae praeparāstī expectantibus tē.

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.


spectacles

en-noun

spectacles pl (plural only, attributive spectacle)

(formal) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.

(cricket, slang) Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”)


specs

(colloquial, plural only) Abbreviation of spectacles.


lunettes

A particular kind of spectacles/glasses, consisting of two circular lenses connected by a half-circle bridge over the nose.


lunettes

desctree

Saint Dominican Creole French: linettes
Haitian Creole: linèt


occhiali

→ Byzantine Greek: ὀκκιάλι (okkiáli)

Greek: κιάλι (kiáli)

Plural of occhiale, from occhio (“eye”) + -ale.

occhiali da sole


眼鏡

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (眼鏡):
* → Japanese: 眼(がん)鏡(きょう) (gankyō)
* → Okinawan: 眼(がん)鏡(ちょー) (ganchō)
* → Korean: 안경(眼鏡) (an'gyeong)

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiɤ̯̃ɻ⁵¹/

/iɛn⁵³ t͡ɕin²¹³/

/ŋaːn¹³ kɛːŋ³³⁻³⁵/

/ŋaːn¹³ kɛːŋ³³/

/ᵑɡan⁵⁵ kiaŋ³³⁻³³⁵/

/ŋi̯an³¹ ki̯aŋ⁵⁵/

/nie⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁵/

/ŋiaŋ³³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋiɑŋ²¹³/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiã²¹/

/ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiã⁴¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiã²¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiã¹¹/

/ɡan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiã²¹/

/ŋe²² t͡ɕin⁴⁴/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiɤ̯̃ɻ⁵¹/

/iɛn⁵³ t͡ɕin²¹³/

/ŋaːn¹³ kɛːŋ³³⁻³⁵/

/ŋaːn¹³ kɛːŋ³³/

/ᵑɡan⁵⁵ kiaŋ³³⁻³³⁵/

/ŋi̯an³¹ ki̯aŋ⁵⁵/

/nie⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁵/

/ŋiaŋ³³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋiɑŋ²¹³/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiã²¹/

/ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiã⁴¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiã²¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiã¹¹/

/ɡan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiã²¹/

/ŋe²² t͡ɕin⁴⁴/

戴眼鏡／戴眼镜

摘眼鏡／摘眼镜

除眼鏡／除眼镜 [Cantonese] ― ceoi⁴ ngaan⁵ geng³⁻² [Jyutping] ― to take off one's glasses

glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles (Classifier: 副 m c)


眼鏡

→ Korean: 메가나 (megana)

Probably originally a compound of 目 (me, “eye”) + 金 (kane, “metal”, in reference to the metal used in eyeglass frames). The kane changes to gane as an instance of rendaku (連濁). The spelling is based on an apparent borrowing from Chinese, see the gankyō reading below.
Appears in texts from the late 1500s.

com

眼鏡絵

painting designed to be viewed through a special type of glasses

水中眼鏡

hydroscope, water glass, swimming goggles


眼鏡

ja-noun

眼(がん)鏡(きょう) • (gankyō) ^(←がんきやう (gankyau)?)

眼鏡 (canonical)
gankyō (romanization)
gankyau (romanization)
がんきやう (hiragana historical)

[ɡã̠ŋʲkʲo̞ː]

/ɡankjau/ → /ɡankjɔː/ → /ɡankjoː/
Probably a borrowing from written Chinese 眼鏡 /眼镜 (yǎnjìng). Eyeglasses are first mentioned in Chinese in the 1400s as 靉靆 /叆叇 (aidai?), a transcription of an Arabic term. By the late Ming dynasty, eyeglasses appear in writing as 靉靆即眼鏡 /叆叇即眼镜 (“aidai, i.e. eye-lenses”), using the compound term 眼鏡 /眼镜 (yǎnjìng, literally “eye + lens”). Compare modern Min Nan reading gán-kiàⁿ.
This reading appears in texts from the 1920s.

(military, possibly archaic) glasses, eyeglasses

両眼鏡

両眼鏡 りょうがんきょう


眼鏡

Cognate with mainland Japanese 眼鏡 (gankyō), ultimately deriving from written Chinese 眼鏡 /眼镜 (yǎnjìng). Eyeglasses are first mentioned in Chinese in the 1400s as 靉靆 /叆叇 (aidai?), a transcription of an Arabic term. By the late Ming dynasty, eyeglasses appear in writing as 靉靆即眼鏡 /叆叇即眼镜 (“aidai, i.e. eye-lenses”), using the compound term 眼鏡 /眼镜 (yǎnjìng, literally “eye + lens”). Compare modern Min Nan reading gán-kiàⁿ.


眼鏡

Compound of 眼 (mī, “eye”, also spelled 目 when used in isolation) + 鏡 (kagan, “mirror, lens”).

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also spelled <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ryu">目</i> when used in isolation


shades

His shades are by some famous designer.


sunglasses

en-noun

sunglasses pl (plural only, attributive sunglass)

It is impossible to know accurately how you look in your sunglasses.

1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:

Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun or other bright light. May also be worn as a fashion accessory. Plural of sunglass.

syze dielli

tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun

તડકાનાં ચશ્માં

taḍkānā̃ caśmā̃

lentes / anteojos / espejuelos solares / oscuros / ahumados / ajumados


sunnies

From sunglasses + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), retaining the plural form.

She took off her sunnies and polished them, a little vigorously.

2005, Dave Franklin, Manic Streets of Perth, published 2011, unnumbered page:

With Heath wearing a black beanie and his trademark sunnies, the couple arrived in Perth at 12.20 p.m. after flying in from the US via Sydney.

2008, Janet Fife-Yeomans, Heath: A Family′s Tale, page 97:

2009, Susan Lyons, Sex Drive, Kensington Press, US, page 160,
“Sunscreen for you.” Her skin was a light golden brown. “And sunnies and a hat.” He slipped on his own sunglasses.

Bring the Prada sunnies, the papers and an appetite if you′re heading here for breakfast.

2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 525:

I can see it now: these sunnies are going to be your fave in no time!.

2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan:

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, informal) Sunglasses.


عين

ar-noun

عَيْن • (ʕayn) f (dual عَيْنَان (ʕaynān), plural عُيُون (ʕuyūn) or أَعْيُن (ʔaʕyun))

عَيْن (canonical)
ʕayn (romanization)
عَيْنَان (dual)
عُيُون (plural)
أَعْيُن (plural)
عَيْن (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْعَيْن (definite informal singular triptote)
عَيْن (construct informal singular triptote)
عَيْنٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْعَيْنُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
عَيْنُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
عَيْنًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْعَيْنَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
عَيْنَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
عَيْنٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْعَيْنِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
عَيْنِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
عَيْنَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْعَيْنَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
عَيْنَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
عَيْنَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْعَيْنَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
عَيْنَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
عَيْنَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْعَيْنَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
عَيْنَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
عَيْنَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْعَيْنَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
عَيْنَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
عُيُون (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
أَعْيُن (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْعُيُون (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْأَعْيُن (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
عُيُون (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَعْيُن (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
عُيُونٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أَعْيُنٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْعُيُونُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَعْيُنُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
عُيُونُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَعْيُنُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
عُيُونًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
أَعْيُنًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْعُيُونَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْأَعْيُنَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
عُيُونَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَعْيُنَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
عُيُونٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أَعْيُنٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْعُيُونِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْأَعْيُنِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
عُيُونِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
أَعْيُنِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

Algerian Arabic: عين (ʕīn)

Egyptian Arabic: عين (ʕēn)

Gulf Arabic: عين (ʕēn)

Libyan Arabic: عين (ʕīn, ʕēn)

Maltese: għajn

Moroccan Arabic: عين (ʕayn, ʕīn)

North Levantine Arabic: عين (ʕayn, ʕēn)

South Levantine Arabic: عين (ʕēn)

Tunisian Arabic: عين (ʕīn)

→ Classical Persian: عَیْن (ayn)

Tajik: айн (ayn)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: ऐन (ain)

Urdu: عَین ('ain)

→ Malay: عين (ain)

From Proto-Semitic *ʕayn-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʿayVn-. Synchronically from the root ع ي ن (ʕ y n).

ar-root

ع ي ن (ʕ y n)

(often preceded by الـ) envy, the evil eye


عين

acw-noun

عين • (ʕēn) m (dual عينين (ʕēnēn), plural عِيُون (ʕiyūn) or عُيُون (ʕuyūn))

ʕēn (romanization)
عينين (dual)
عِيُون (plural)
عُيُون (plural)


عين

ary-noun

عَيْن or عِين • (ʕayn or ʕīn) f (dual عَيْنَين (ʕaynayn) or عِينَين (ʕīnayn), plural عيون (ʕyūn), diminutive عوينة (ʕwīna))

عَيْن (canonical)
عِين (canonical)
ʕayn (romanization)
ʕīn (romanization)
عَيْنَين (dual)
عِينَين (dual)
عيون (plural)
عوينة (diminutive)


عين

apc-noun

عين • (ʕayn, ʕēn) f (dual عينتين (ʕayntayn, ʕēntēn), plural عيون (ʕyūn) or عينين (ʕaynayn, ʕēnēn))

ʕayn (romanization)
ʕēn (romanization)
عينتين (dual)
عيون (plural)
عينين (plural)


عين

ajp-noun

عين • (ʕēn) f (dual عينتين (ʕēntēn), plural عينين (ʕīnēn) or عيون (ʕyūn))

ʕēn (romanization)
عينتين (dual)
عينين (plural)
عيون (plural)


mascara

en-noun

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)

/ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/

apply mascara

put on mascara

mascara runs

mascara smudges

With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:

There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:

A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.


眼睛

/jɛn²¹⁴ d͡ʑ̥iŋ⁴/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/iɛn⁵³ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/

/niæ̃⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²⁴/

/ŋaːn¹³ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋan²¹³⁻²¹ t͡ɕiaŋ¹/

/nie⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ¹¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siɪŋ³³/

/ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡seŋ³³/

/ŋe²² t͡ɕin⁴⁴/

/jɛn²¹⁴ d͡ʑ̥iŋ⁴/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/iɛn⁵³ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/

/niæ̃⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²⁴/

/ŋaːn¹³ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋan²¹³⁻²¹ t͡ɕiaŋ¹/

/nie⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ¹¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siɪŋ³³/

/ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡seŋ³³/

/ŋe²² t͡ɕin⁴⁴/

眼睛顏色

眼睛颜色

張開眼睛

张开眼睛

閉上眼睛

闭上眼睛

你的眼睛很漂亮。

Guāngxiàn tài qiáng, wǒ de yǎnjing yǒu diǎn shòubuliǎo.

光線太強，我的眼睛有點受不了。

光线太强，我的眼睛有点受不了。

Why are you reading here? The light is so dim — it's not good for your eyes.

Nǐ zěnme zài zhèr kànshū a, dēngguāng zhème àn de, duì yǎnjing duō bùhǎo a.

你怎麼在這兒看書啊，燈光這麼暗的，對眼睛多不好啊。

你怎么在这儿看书啊，灯光这么暗的，对眼睛多不好啊。

eye; eyes (Classifier: 隻／只 m; 雙／双 m; 對／对 m)


око

bg-noun

око́ • (okó) n (relational adjective о́чен)

око́ (canonical)
okó (romanization)
о́чен (adjective relational)
око́ (indefinite singular)
очи́ (indefinite plural)
око́то (definite singular)
очи́те (definite plural)

bg-ndecl

око́</pl:очи́>


око

mk-noun

око • (oko) n (plural очи, relational adjective очен, diminutive окце or оче, augmentative очиште)

oko (romanization)
очи (plural)
очен (adjective relational)
окце (diminutive)
оче (diminutive)
очиште (augmentative)
око (indefinite singular)
очи (indefinite plural)
окото (definite singular unspecified)
очите (definite plural unspecified)
оково (definite proximal singular)
очиве (definite plural proximal)
оконо (definite distal singular)
очине (definite distal plural)
око (singular vocative)
очи (plural vocative)


око

head

око (oko) n (diminutive очичко, augmentative очиско, related adjective оков or очни)

oko (romanization)
очичко (diminutive)
очиско (augmentative)
оков (adjective)
очни (adjective)
око (nominative singular)
очи (nominative plural)
ока (genitive singular)
оч (genitive plural)
оку (dative singular)
очом (dative plural)
око (accusative singular)
очи (accusative plural)
оком (instrumental singular)
очми (instrumental plural)
оку (locative singular)
очох (locative plural)
око (singular vocative)
очи (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Slovak oko, from Proto-Slavic *oko. Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn о́ко (óko), во́ко (vóko) and Slovak oko.

маче око

оч до оч


око

ru-noun+

о́ко • (óko) n inan (genitive о́ка, nominative plural о́чи^*, genitive plural оче́й^*) (* о́чи is actually an old nominative dual form for neuter nouns.)

о́ко (canonical)
óko (romanization)
о́ка (genitive)
о́чи^* (nominative plural)
оче́й^* (genitive plural)
о́ко (nominative singular)
о́чи (nominative plural)
óči (nominative plural)
о́ка (genitive singular)
оче́й (genitive plural)
očéj (genitive plural)
о́ку (dative singular)
оча́м (dative plural)
očám (dative plural)
о́ко (accusative singular)
о́чи (accusative plural)
óči (accusative plural)
о́ком (instrumental singular)
оча́ми (instrumental plural)
očámi (instrumental plural)
о́ке (prepositional singular)
оча́х (plural prepositional)
očáx (plural prepositional)
о́ко (dated nominative singular)
о́чи (dated irregular nominative plural)
о́ка (dated genitive singular)
оче́й (dated genitive irregular plural)
о́ку (dated dative singular)
оча́мъ (dated dative irregular plural)
о́ко (accusative dated singular)
о́чи (accusative dated irregular plural)
о́комъ (dated instrumental singular)
оча́ми (dated instrumental irregular plural)
о́кѣ (dated prepositional singular)
оча́хъ (dated irregular plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic око (oko), from Proto-Slavic *oko, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.

inh+

о́чи чёрные

Ви́дит о́ко, да зу́б неймёт.

The eye sees (it) but the tooth cannot take it.

(dated or poetic or literary) eye (used in proverbs and expressions)

о́чник

о́чный (óčnyj)

о́чница

о́чный (óčnyj)

зао́чник

зао́чный (zaóčnyj)

зао́чница

зао́чный (zaóčnyj)

неочеви́дный

очеви́дный (očevídnyj)

очеви́дность

очеви́дный (očevídnyj)

одноочко́вый

очко́вый (očkóvyj)

двухочко́вый

очко́вый (očkóvyj)

трёхочко́вый

очко́вый (očkóvyj)

очкова́ть

очко́ n (očkó)

очкану́ть

очко́ n (očkó)

очку́н

очко́ n (očkó)

оче́чник

оче́чный (očéčnyj)

очка́стый

очки́ m pl (očkí)

очка́рик

очки́ m pl (očkí)

око́нный

окно́ n (oknó)

подоко́нник

окно́ n (oknó)


око

о̏ко (canonical neuter)
ȍko (romanization)
о̏ко (nominative singular)
о̏чи (nominative plural)
о̏ка (genitive singular)
о̀чијӯ (genitive plural)
оку (dative singular)
очима (dative plural)
око (accusative singular)
очи (accusative plural)
око (singular vocative)
очи (plural vocative)
оку (locative singular)
очима (locative plural)
оком (instrumental singular)
очима (instrumental plural)


око

uk-noun

о́ко • (óko) n inan (genitive о́ка, nominative plural о́чі, genitive plural оче́й, relational adjective о́чний)

о́ко (canonical)
óko (romanization)
о́ка (genitive)
о́чі (nominative plural)
оче́й (genitive plural)
о́чний (adjective relational)
о́ко (nominative singular)
о́чі (nominative plural)
о́ка (genitive singular)
оче́й (genitive plural)
о́ку (dative singular)
оча́м (dative plural)
о́ко (accusative singular)
о́чі (accusative plural)
ві́чі (accusative plural)
о́ком (instrumental singular)
очи́ма (instrumental plural)
о́ку (locative singular)
о́ці (locative singular)
оча́х (locative plural)
о́ко (singular vocative)
о́чі (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Ruthenian о́ко (óko), from Proto-Slavic *oko.


oko

oko (nominative singular)
oka (nominative plural)
oči (dual nominative)
oka (genitive singular)
ok (genitive plural)
očí (dual genitive)
oku (dative singular)
okám (dative plural)
okům (dative plural)
očím (dative dual)
oko (accusative singular)
oka (accusative plural)
oči (accusative dual)
oko (singular vocative)
oka (plural vocative)
oči (dual vocative)
oku (locative singular)
okách (locative plural)
očích (dual locative)
okem (instrumental singular)
oky (instrumental plural)
očima (dual instrumental)

Inherited from Old Czech oko, from Proto-Slavic *oko.

zmizet z očí

Otevřela oči.


oko

pl-noun

oko n (diminutive oczko, augmentative oczysko)

oczko (diminutive)
oczysko (augmentative)
oko (nominative singular)
oczy (nominative plural)
oka (genitive singular)
oczu (genitive plural)
ócz (genitive plural)
oczów (genitive plural)
oku (dative singular)
oczom (dative plural)
oko (accusative singular)
oczy (accusative plural)
okiem (instrumental singular)
oczami (instrumental plural)
oczyma (instrumental plural)
oku (locative singular)
oczach (locative plural)
oko (singular vocative)
oczy (plural vocative)

czego oczy nie widzą, tego sercu nie żal

źdźbło w oku bliźniego widzisz, a belki w swoim nie dostrzegasz

Twoje oczy są piękne.


olho

Guinea-Bissau Creole: udju

Kabuverdianu: odju

Kristang: olu

Papiamentu: wowo

Saramaccan: wójo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese olho (“eye”), from Vulgar Latin oclus (“eye”), from Latin oculus (“eye”), from Proto-Italic *okelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Doublet of óculo, a borrowing. Compare Galician ollo, Spanish ojo, French œil and Italian occhio.


משקפיים

he-noun

מִשְׁקָפַיִם

משקפיים / מִשְׁקָפַיִם • (mishkafáyim) m du (singular indefinite מִשְׁקָף, dual construct מִשְׁקְפֵי־) [pattern: מִקְטָל]

מִשְׁקָפַיִם (canonical)
mishkafáyim (romanization)
מִשְׁקָף (indefinite singular)
מִשְׁקְפֵי־ (construct dual)

Coined by Polish-Israeli writer Leib Hazan.

coinage

אני חובש משקפיים כבר שנים.


anteojos

→ Zoogocho Zapotec: antioj

(Latin America) glasses, (formal) spectacles, (US) eyeglass


глаз

ru-noun+

глаз • (glaz) m inan (genitive гла́за, nominative plural глаза́, genitive plural глаз, relational adjective глазно́й, diminutive глазёнки or гла́зик or глазо́к, augmentative глази́ще)

glaz (romanization)
гла́за (genitive)
глаза́ (nominative plural)
глаз (genitive plural)
глазно́й (adjective relational)
глазёнки (diminutive)
гла́зик (diminutive)
глазо́к (diminutive)
глази́ще (augmentative)
гла́з (nominative singular)
глаза́ (irregular nominative plural)
гла́за (genitive singular)
гла́з (genitive irregular plural)
гла́зу (dative singular)
глаза́м (dative plural)
гла́з (accusative singular)
глаза́ (accusative irregular plural)
гла́зом (instrumental singular)
глаза́ми (instrumental plural)
гла́зе (prepositional singular)
глаза́х (plural prepositional)
в глазу́ (locative singular)
на глазу́ (locative singular)

Inherited from Old East Slavic глазъ (glazŭ, “ball, eye”), from Proto-Slavic *glazъ (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʰ)el- (“round, spherical, stone”).

der

Я хорошо видел, что дед следит за мною умными и зоркими зелёными глазами, и боялся его.

1913, Максим Горький, “II”, in Детство; English translation from Ronald Wilks, transl., My Childhood, 1966:

I could see all too clearly that Grandfather was in the habit of following me with his clever, sharp-sighted green eyes, and for this I was afraid of him.

Ja xorošo videl, što ded sledit za mnoju umnymi i zorkimi zeljónymi glazami, i bojalsja jevo.


haw

en-noun

haw (countable and uncountable, plural haws)

Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.

nictitating membrane
nictitating membrane

(countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.


iris

irises (plural)
iris (plural)
irides (plural)

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.

der

(anatomy) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, which adjusts to control the amount of light reaching the retina, and which forms the colored portion of the eye (See Iris (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).


iris

Learned borrowing from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris).


askance

Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”).

cog

I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.

1896, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The Island of Doctor Moreau:

...the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.

1878, Henry James, chapter 1, in The Europeans:


eyeball

en-verb

eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)

eyeballs (present singular third-person)
eyeballing (participle present)
eyeballed (participle past)
eyeballed (past)

From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).

A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.

Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.

(transitive, informal) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.


porky

Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.

2015, Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bred in Wengen:

(Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural) An eye.


supercilium

la-noun

supercilium n (genitive superciliī or supercilī); second declension

superciliī (genitive)
supercilī (genitive)
supercilium (nominative singular)
supercilia (nominative plural)
superciliī (genitive singular)
supercilī (genitive singular)
superciliōrum (genitive plural)
superciliō (dative singular)
superciliīs (dative plural)
supercilium (accusative singular)
supercilia (accusative plural)
superciliō (ablative singular)
superciliīs (ablative plural)
supercilium (singular vocative)
supercilia (plural vocative)

Aromanian: sprindzeanã

Catalan: sobrecella

Corsican: sopracigliu

French: sourcil

Friulian: sorecee

Italian: sopracciglio, ⇒? cipiglio

Norman: soucile

Occitan: subrecilha

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: sobrencelha, sobrancelha
Galician: sobrecella
Portuguese: sobrancelha

Romanian: sprânceană

Romansch: survantscheglia

Sicilian: supraccigghiu

Spanish: sobreceja, sobrecejo

Borrowings:

→ English: supercilium

→ Portuguese: supercílio

[s̠ʊpɛrˈkɪlʲiʊ̃ˑ]

From super- (“above, over”) + cilium (“an eyelid”).

af

(anatomy, usually in the plural) The eyebrow.

The prominent part of a thing, the brow, ridge, summit.


shiner

From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).


wink

en-verb

wink (third-person singular simple present winks, present participle winking, simple past and past participle winked)

winks (present singular third-person)
winking (participle present)
winked (participle past)
winked (past)

From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”).

cog

Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

But man doth know / The ſpring, whence all things flow: / And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks, and lets his humours reigne: / They make his life a conſtant blot, / And all the bloud of God to run in vain.

1638, George Herbert, “Miserie”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, 5th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] T[homas] Buck, and R[oger] Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, →OCLC, page 94:

Therefore the scripture represents wicked men as without understanding […] they are not blind; but they wink; […] though they know God, yet they do not glorify him as God […]

1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC:

But whenever obstinacy, which is an open defiance, appears, that cannot be winked at, or neglected, but must, in the first instance, be subdued and mastered; only care must be had, that we mistake not ; and we must be sure it is obstinacy, and nothing else.

1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, § 79:

For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:

(intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.


wink

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat

I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 25”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

Couldn't sleep a wink last night / Oh how I'd love to hold you tight

1973, Bryan Ferry (lyrics and music), “Pyjamarama”, performed by Roxy Music:

A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.

silmällinen

brief period of sleep — see also forty winks


poppy

en-noun

poppy (countable and uncountable, plural poppies)

→ Japanese: ポピー (popī)

Beckwithshaw
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae
Moina Michael

PIE word
 *péh₂wr̥
The noun is derived from Late Middle English poppy, Middle English popy, popi, popie (“plant of the genus Papaver; poppy seeds used as a spice”) [and other forms], from Old English popiġ (“poppy”), Early Old English popeġ, popaeġ, popæġ, popei [and other forms], perhaps from Late Latin *papavum, popauer, from Latin papāver (“poppy”), which may be from a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“bonfire”). Doublet of papaver.
Sense 3 (“artificial poppy flower to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts”) reflects the efforts of American professor and humanitarian Moina Michael (1869–1944) to popularize the wearing of artificial poppies in remembrance of those who fought and died in World War I; she was inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915) by the Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae (1872–1918): see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

nb...

pape, papie, papy, papye, popẹ̄, poppei, popye, (Early Middle English) papig, popi, popig

blue poppy

Meconopsis, especially Meconopsis betonicifolia

In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; […] / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields.

1915 May 3 (date composed), John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, published 8 December 1915, →OCLC; republished in In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], 1919, →OCLC, page 3:

We cherish, too, the poppy red / That grows on fields where valor led; / It seems to signal to the skies / That blood of heroes never dies, / […] / And now the torch and poppy red / We wear in honor of our dead. / Fear not that ye have died for naught; / We've learned the lesson that ye taught / In Flanders fields.

1918 November 9, Moina Michael, We Shall Keep the Faith; quoted in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the First Session of the Sixty-ninth Congress of the United States of America (United States House of Representatives), volume LXVII, part 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1926 February 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3717, column 2:

Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas#Translingual

Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.

губгъуэӏущхьэ

gʷubğʷɛʼwuśḥɛ

Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England under 21 5 Iceland under 21 0: Match report”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-11-11:

(chiefly Australia, British, Canada) A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.


poppy

en-adj

poppy (comparative poppier or more poppy, superlative poppiest or most poppy)

poppier (comparative)
more poppy (comparative)
poppiest (superlative)
most poppy (superlative)

From pop (“loud, sharp sound; fizzy drink; to make or burst with a loud, sharp sound; to stand out”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).


poppy

From pop(ular) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).


poppy

From pop (“affectionate form of father”) + -y (suffix forming terms of endearment).

suf

(father):

(grandfather):

(endearing) One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.


crow's feet

Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.

potes de gall

wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye


hairy eyeball

He was giving me the hairy eyeball.

(slang) A look askance at someone; a look of disdain or skepticism.


pupil

From Middle English pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla (“pupil; little girl, doll”), named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.

der

There are sharks with round pupils, sharks with slitlike pupils, and some with pupils that expand and contract with the amount of light available. As unimpressive as this might sound to people who are used to having their pupils dilate and contract regularly, realize that no bony fish has this modification of the eye.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 29:

(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

pupil

the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye

das Schwarze im Auge

colloquial; sometimes including the iris


retina

en-noun

retina (plural retinas or retinae or (archaic) retinæ)

retinas (plural)
retinae (plural)
retinæ (archaic plural)

From Middle English rethina, borrowing from Medieval Latin rētīna (“retina”, feminine noun), ellipsis of tunica rētīna (“net-like tunic”), used to describe the blood vessel system at the back of the eye. The phrase is attested in the 12th century in Guillelmus the abbot and Gerard of Cremona—the latter may have created this phrase as a translation for Arabic طَبَقَة شَبَكِيَّة (ṭabaqa šabakiyya) "net-like layer", which translates Ancient Greek ἀμφιβληστροειδής χῐτών (amphiblēstroeidḗs khĭtṓn, “retina”), which is attested in the ancient medical writer Galen.

m+

طَبَقَة شَبَكِيَّة

ἀμφιβληστροειδής χῐτών

(ophthalmology) The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that contains rods and cones sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.


retina

la-noun

rētīna f (genitive rētīnae); first declension

rētīna (canonical feminine)
rētīnae (genitive)
rētīna (nominative singular)
rētīnae (nominative plural)
rētīnae (genitive singular)
rētīnārum (genitive plural)
rētīnae (dative singular)
rētīnīs (dative plural)
rētīnam (accusative singular)
rētīnās (accusative plural)
rētīnā (ablative singular)
rētīnīs (ablative plural)
rētīna (singular vocative)
rētīnae (plural vocative)

→ Middle English: rethina

English: retina

Ellipsis of tunica rētīna (“a net-like tunic”), referring to the fibrillar texture of the eye's retina. The phrase is attested since at least the 12th century, and this noun usage since the 13th c.

Et dicit Avicenna quarto de Animalibus, quod retina ducit nutrimentum secundum veritatem ad partes oculi

13th c., Roger Bacon, Opus maius 5.1.2.3

And Avicenna says in his fourth book on Animals that the retina actually takes nutrients to the parts of the eye

(Medieval Latin, anatomy) the retina of an eye


downcast

en-adj

downcast (comparative more downcast, superlative most downcast)

more downcast (comparative)
most downcast (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“(adjective) cast down, dejected; (verb) to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”) (from Old Norse kasta (“to cast, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw”), from *kas- (“to throw, toss; to bring up”); further etymology uncertain), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English such as adoun-throwen (“to throw down”) and adoun-werpen (“to throw down”)). The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“that has been thrown”, adjective).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

prefix

Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

Holonym: monocle

Comeronyms: ring, lens

adjusting the distance between the bottom gallery and the top gallery

A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.


pinkeye

en-noun

pinkeye (usually uncountable, plural pinkeyes)

A highly contagious form of conjunctivitis.


eyed

From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.

The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg.

1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland, Calif.: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 24:

The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.

1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6:

That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin […]

1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Oliver Twist:

Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592

Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.

1960, Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway, Night, New York: Bantam, published 1986, page 61:

(in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.


eyed

English: eyed


apple of the eye

apple of the eye (plural apples of the eye)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-apple of the eye.wav

From Middle English appel of the eyȝe, appel of þe ye, perhaps dissimilated from Middle English ij appel (literally “eye-apple”). More at eye-apple.

der

The pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball.


squint

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.


ocular

Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument, i.e., the optical element closest to the eye.


ogle

17th century. Probably from Low German ögeln (“to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes”), from Middle Low German ö̂gelen, frequentative of Middle Low German ö̂gen, from Old Saxon ōgian, from Proto-West Germanic *augijan (“to show”). Alternatively from an equivalent Dutch *ogelen, but this seems unattested (only the simplex ogen). In both cases equivalent to English eye + -le.

der

Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law.

2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:


blink

en-verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.


evil eye

/ˌiːvl̩‿ˈaɪ/

From Middle English ivel eie (“evil eye; envy”), from Old English eage yfel, a calque of Latin oculus malus, from oculus (“eye”) + malus (“bad, evil, wicked; destructive, hurtful, injurious; unfavourable, unlucky”).

nb...

Edited with Introduction and Glossary from the Royal MS. 7 C iv. in the British Museum by E. W. Rhodes, M.A. Langton Fellow of the Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester

Each of the young men, in saluting the new-comer, made mechanically, and with care to conceal it from him, a slight gesture or sign with their fingers; for Arbaces, the Egyptian, was supposed to possess the fatal gift of the evil eye.

1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Blind Flower-girl, and the Beauty of Fashion.—The Athenian’s Confession.—The Reader’s Introduction to Arbaces of Egypt.”, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book I, page 25:

The ὀφθαλμὸς βάσκανος, or evil eye, is frequently mentioned by ancient writers. […] Various amulets were used to avert the influence of the evil eye. The most common of these appears to have been the phallus, called by the Romans fascinum, which was hung round the necks of children (turpicula res).

1842, Charles Anthon, “FA′SCINUM”, in edited by William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities […], 3rd American edition, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh.: American Book Company, published 1843, →OCLC, pages 431–432, column 1:

A common dread was the evil eye, and the chief charm against it was in the form of a knotted cord woven by a "wise woman".

1936, Rollo Ahmed, “The Ancient Magic of the East”, in The Black Art, London: Senate, Studio Editions, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:

A wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.

syri i keq

wicked look conveying dislike or envy believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look

Isma laughed, but Hira drew her shoulders in tighter, reached out to touch the evil eye that hung on her wall and which Isma had always assumed to be merely decorative.

2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 11:

The charm used to ward off the evil eye; a nazar.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 7:21–23, column 1:

[A] Noble Venetian, vvho is ſtill a Merchant, told me, they vvill ſpeedily find out ſome Method to redreſs it; probably by making a free Port, for they look vvith an Evil Eye upon Leghorne, that dravvs to it moſt of the Veſſels bound for Italy.

1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Venice”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 84:

If you tell me, "Good morning" / I'm gonna tell you, "That's a lie" / If you say I'm old, baby / I'm gonna give you the evil eye

1964 February 18, Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather (lyrics and music), “Evil Gal Blues”, in Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, performed by Aretha Franklin, New York, N.Y.: Columbia Records, →OCLC:

(often humorous) A look conveying disapproval, envy, hostility, etc.


agog

en-adj

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

more agog (comparative)
most agog (superlative)

From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).

Cotton Mather came galloping down
All the way to Newbury town,
With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,
And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;

1860, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury”, in Home Ballads:

. . . and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.

1894, Ford Madox Ford, The queen who flew: a fairy tale, page 41:

People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement . . .

1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress, page 9:

Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens.

1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, page 190:


crusty

From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.

Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.

1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation,, →ISBN, page 155:

Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?

2003, Mary O'Connell, “Saint Anne”, in Living with Saints, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 209:

I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.

2005, Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, Contemporary Press, page 51


monocle

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.


monocle

nl-noun

monocle m (plural monocles, diminutive monocletje n)

monocles (plural)
monocletje (diminutive neuter)


monocle

→ Greek: μονόκλ (monókl)

→ Dutch: monocle

→ English: monocle

From Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).


cornea

en-noun

cornea (plural corneas or corneae or (archaic) corneæ)

corneas (plural)
corneae (plural)
corneæ (archaic plural)

From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”).

Or instead of treating them with the developing solution, the corneæ may be removed to a warm, concentrated solution of tartaric acid and remain there at the temperature of an incubating stove until the gold is fully reduced.

1885, Arthur Bolles Lee, chapter XI, in The Microtomist’s Vade‐Mecum, P. Blakiston, Son & Co, page 93:

In the lateral view (fig. 26) the corneae seemed very flat, their convexity not exceeding that of the bulbi (cornea plana?);

1969, P. P. H. Alkemade, Dysgenesis Mesodermalis of the Iris and the Cornea: A Study of Rieger’s Syndrome and Peter’s Anomaly, page 119:

The corneae were swollen without major infiltrates similar to longstanding disciform edema.

1981, R. Sundmacher, D. Neumann-Haefelin, A. Mattes, K. Cantell, “Connatal Monosymptomatic Corneal Endotheliitis by Cytomegalovirus”, in Herpetic Eye Diseases, J.F. Bergmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 501:

It is well known that in clinical practice the corneae from eyes enucleated for malignant melanoma of posterior choroid are usually utilized for corneal grafting. This research refers to cases of posterior melanomas which extended anteriorly, in which the utilization of the corneae for grafting was doubtful.

1983, A. Loffredo, G. Cennamo, A. De Lellis, A. Sammartino, A. Del Prete, “Echographic Pattern Evaluation of Eyes with Choroid Melanoma for Corneal Graft Utilization”, in Jeffrey S. Hillman, Malcolm M. Le May, editors, Ophthalmic Ultrasonography: Proceedings of the 9th SIDUO Congress, Leeds, U.K. July 20-23, 1982, Dr W. Junk Publishers, Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, →ISBN, page 43:

(anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.


mata

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.
Compare Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”) / 眼(め) (me, “eye”) + 戸(と) (to, “door”) = 窓(まど) (mado, “window”).

Japanese language
Proto-Austronesian language
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-Philippine language


mata

From Proto-Polynesian *mata. Cognates include Hawaiian maka and Samoan mata.


bifocals

From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.

He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.

2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116:

Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.


perle

English: pearl

Scots: pairl, purl

From Old French perle, from Medieval Latin perula.

(figurative) The pupil (hole in the iris)


naked eye

Eyesight, unaided by equipment such as a telescope or microscope.

неозбро́єне о́ко n (neozbrójene óko, literally “unarmed eye”)

неозбро́єним о́ком (neozbrójenym ókom, literally “with an unarmed eye”)


Lid

de-noun

Lid n (strong, genitive Lides or Lids, plural Lider)

Lides (genitive)
Lids (genitive)
Lider (plural)
Lid (nominative singular)
Lider (definite nominative plural)
Lides (genitive singular)
Lids (genitive singular)
Lider (definite genitive plural)
Lid (dative singular)
Lide (dative singular)
Lidern (dative definite plural)
Lid (accusative singular)
Lider (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German lit (“lid, cover”), from Old High German hlit, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid.
In the modern sense a shortening of Augenlid. Cognate with Dutch lid (“lid”), English lid.


O

From earlier ou, from Old Limburgish ouga, from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô.


Gleitsichtbrille

Gleitsichtbrille f (genitive Gleitsichtbrille, plural Gleitsichtbrillen)

Gleitsichtbrille (genitive)
Gleitsichtbrillen (plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (nominative singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (definite nominative plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (genitive singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (definite genitive plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (dative singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (dative definite plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (accusative singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (accusative definite plural)


iridology

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) A form of alternative medicine involving the diagnosis of body ailments through the examination of the iris of the human eye.


walleye

(plural "walleye" or "walleyes") A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.


cross-eyed

en-adj

cross-eyed (comparative more cross-eyed, superlative most cross-eyed)

more cross-eyed (comparative)
most cross-eyed (superlative)

(British) Having both eyes oriented inward, especially involuntarily.


uvea

From Medieval Latin, from Latin uva (“grape”), partial loan translation of Greek ῥαγοειδής χιτών (rhagoeidḗs khitṓn, “[covering] like a grape”), from ῥάξ (rháx, “grape”) .

(anatomy) The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris.

střední vrstva oční koule

the middle of the three concenctric layers that make up the eye


conjunctiva

en-noun

conjunctiva (plural conjunctivas or conjunctivae)

conjunctivas (plural)
conjunctivae (plural)

From 1540s late Middle English, borrowing from Medieval Latin conjūnctīva (“serving to connect, connective”, feminine), ellipsis of membrāna conjūnctīva (“conjunctive membrane”).

ellipsis

There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.

1884, Elliott Coues, “§ 4.—An Introduction to the Anatomy of Birds.”, in Key to North American Birds. […], 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Estes and Lauriat, →OCLC, part II (General Ornithology), page 180:

(anatomy) A clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera.


eye socket

(anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.


floater

From float + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

kelluja

person who physically floats in a gas or liquid

kelluva esine

thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid

leijuri

thing which moves from place to place, as if floating

(figurative) A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role.

(US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.


nictitating membrane

en-noun

nictitating membrane (plural nictitating membranes)

2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.

A transparent protective fold of skin acting as an inner eyelid in birds, reptiles and some mammals.


pince-nez

Borrowed from French pince-nez (literally “pinch-nose”).

bor

Lord Belpher, leaning against the wall and trying to decide whether his right or left foot hurt him the more excruciatingly, became aware that a curate was standing before him, regarding him through a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez with a disapproving and hostile expression.

1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 15, in A Damsel in Distress:

Shabet took a pince-nez from his breast pocket and settled it on the bridge of his nose.

Furst, Alan 2000 Kingdom of Shadows, p170

Templeless eyeglasses that clip to the bridge of the nose.


pince-nez

→ Catalan: pinçanàs (calque)

→ Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)

→ Swedish: pincené c


hyperopia

en-noun

hyperopia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperopias)

(pathology) A disorder of the vision where the eye focuses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects.


gleraugu

is-noun

gleraugu n pl (plural only, genitive plural gleraugna)

gleraugna (genitive plural)
gleraugu (indefinite nominative plural)
gleraugun (definite nominative plural)
gleraugu (accusative indefinite plural)
gleraugun (accusative definite plural)
gleraugum (dative indefinite plural)
gleraugunum (dative definite plural)
gleraugna (genitive indefinite plural)
gleraugnanna (definite genitive plural)

/ˈklɛːr.øyːɣʏ/

(plural only) glasses, eyeglasses, spectacles


goggle

gargle (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

From 14th century Middle English gogelen (“to roll (eyes), to look sideways”). Earlier source is unknown. The noun is attested from the 17th century. Compare Irish gog (“a nod, a slight motion”).

inh

Come and have a goggle at Fauzia’s new car!

A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.

(in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.


eyeless

From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”).

Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.

I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

eyeless needle

(uncommon, of tools or objects, especially suturing needles) Having no eye: having no hole.


teary

en-adj

teary (comparative tearier, superlative teariest)

tearier (comparative)
teariest (superlative)

From Middle English tery; equivalent to tear + -y.

No wonder Ryan was teary; he missed his parents.

Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.


bloodshot

bloodshot (comparative more bloodshot, superlative most bloodshot)

more bloodshot (comparative)
most bloodshot (superlative)

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She said she was perfectly fine but I could tell she was tired; her eyes were all bloodshot.

(of the eyes) Reddened and inflamed because of congested blood vessels.


eye shadow

en-noun

eye shadow (countable and uncountable, plural eye shadows)

Makeup that is applied to the eyelids and below the eyes to give a darker complexion there.


eyeliner

eyeliner (countable and uncountable, plural eyeliners)

Do you need to wear eyeliner? As with any makeup step, eyeliner is completely optional. From an artistic perspective, if you are wearing eyeshadow, I almost always recommend wearing eyeliner, unless your eyelids and eyelashes are obscured by the eyebrow area. Eyeliner is a basic part of an eye-makeup design because it shapes and defines the eyes and makes the eyelashes look thicker.

2004, Paula Begoun, The Complete Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 419:

Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.


BCG

birth control glasses
birth control glasses#English

(US, military slang) Initialism of birth control glasses.


four-eyes

As soon as he saw me he hailed me as “Four eyes,” in reference to my spectacles, and said, “Four eyes is going to treat.” I joined in the laugh and got behind the stove and sat down, thinking to escape notice.

1913, Theodore Roosevelt, “In Cowboy Land”, in An Autobiography, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 136:

(idiomatic, derogatory) A person who wears spectacles/eyeglasses.

betaurrekodun

(derogatory) person who wears spectacles


göz

az-noun

göz (definite accusative gözü, plural gözlər)

gözü (accusative definite)
gözlər (plural)
göz (nominative singular)
gözlər (nominative plural)
gözü (accusative definite singular)
gözləri (accusative definite plural)
gözə (dative singular)
gözlərə (dative plural)
gözdə (locative singular)
gözlərdə (locative plural)
gözdən (ablative singular)
gözlərdən (ablative plural)
gözün (definite genitive singular)
gözlərin (definite genitive plural)
gözüm (first-person nominative possessive singular)
gözlərim (first-person nominative possessive singular)
gözün (nominative possessive second-person singular)
gözlərin (nominative possessive second-person singular)
gözü (nominative possessive singular third-person)
gözləri (nominative possessive singular third-person)
gözümüz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
gözlərimiz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
gözünüz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
gözləriniz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
gözü (nominative plural possessive third-person)
gözləri (nominative plural possessive third-person)
gözümü (accusative first-person possessive singular)
gözlərimi (accusative first-person possessive singular)
gözünü (accusative possessive second-person singular)
gözlərini (accusative possessive second-person singular)
gözünü (accusative possessive singular third-person)
gözlərini (accusative possessive singular third-person)
gözümüzü (accusative first-person plural possessive)
gözlərimizi (accusative first-person plural possessive)
gözünüzü (accusative plural possessive second-person)
gözlərinizi (accusative plural possessive second-person)
gözünü (accusative plural possessive third-person)
gözlərini (accusative plural possessive third-person)
gözümə (dative first-person possessive singular)
gözlərimə (dative first-person possessive singular)
gözünə (dative possessive second-person singular)
gözlərinə (dative possessive second-person singular)
gözünə (dative possessive singular third-person)
gözlərinə (dative possessive singular third-person)
gözümüzə (dative first-person plural possessive)
gözlərimizə (dative first-person plural possessive)
gözünüzə (dative plural possessive second-person)
gözlərinizə (dative plural possessive second-person)
gözünə (dative plural possessive third-person)
gözlərinə (dative plural possessive third-person)
gözümdə (first-person locative possessive singular)
gözlərimdə (first-person locative possessive singular)
gözündə (locative possessive second-person singular)
gözlərində (locative possessive second-person singular)
gözündə (locative possessive singular third-person)
gözlərində (locative possessive singular third-person)
gözümüzdə (first-person locative plural possessive)
gözlərimizdə (first-person locative plural possessive)
gözünüzdə (locative plural possessive second-person)
gözlərinizdə (locative plural possessive second-person)
gözündə (locative plural possessive third-person)
gözlərində (locative plural possessive third-person)
gözümdən (ablative first-person possessive singular)
gözlərimdən (ablative first-person possessive singular)
gözündən (ablative possessive second-person singular)
gözlərindən (ablative possessive second-person singular)
gözündən (ablative possessive singular third-person)
gözlərindən (ablative possessive singular third-person)
gözümüzdən (ablative first-person plural possessive)
gözlərimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessive)
gözünüzdən (ablative plural possessive second-person)
gözlərinizdən (ablative plural possessive second-person)
gözündən (ablative plural possessive third-person)
gözlərindən (ablative plural possessive third-person)
gözümün (first-person genitive possessive singular)
gözlərimin (first-person genitive possessive singular)
gözünün (genitive possessive second-person singular)
gözlərinin (genitive possessive second-person singular)
gözünün (genitive possessive singular third-person)
gözlərinin (genitive possessive singular third-person)
gözümüzün (first-person genitive plural possessive)
gözlərimizin (first-person genitive plural possessive)
gözünüzün (genitive plural possessive second-person)
gözlərinizin (genitive plural possessive second-person)
gözünün (genitive plural possessive third-person)
gözlərinin (genitive plural possessive third-person)

Gözüm yaxşı görmür.


peeper

Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!

1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get them peepers?
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?

The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36:

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) The eye.


shifty

en-adj

shifty (comparative shiftier, superlative shiftiest)

shiftier (comparative)
shiftiest (superlative)

Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Two Years Ago, volume 1, Cambridge: Macmillan, page 34:

Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.


black eye

"You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.


canthus

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“the tire of a wheel”).

bor+

the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus

I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.

2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:

A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

corner of the eye
corner of the eye#Noun

(anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.


bespectacled

en-adj

bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

more bespectacled (comparative)
most bespectacled (superlative)

The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.

1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329:

Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:

The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:


zena

zȅna (canonical feminine)
зе̏на (Cyrillic)
zȅna (nominative singular)
zene (nominative plural)
zene (genitive singular)
zȇnā (genitive plural)
zeni (dative singular)
zenama (dative plural)
zenu (accusative singular)
zene (accusative plural)
zeno (singular vocative)
zene (plural vocative)
zeni (locative singular)
zenama (locative plural)
zenom (instrumental singular)
zenama (instrumental plural)


ὀφθαλμός

grc-noun

ὀφθᾰλμός • (ophthălmós) m (genitive ὀφθᾰλμοῦ); second declension

ὀφθᾰλμός (canonical)
ophthălmós (romanization)
ὀφθᾰλμοῦ (genitive)
ὁ ὀφθᾰλμός (nominative singular)
τὼ ὀφθᾰλμώ (dual nominative)
οἱ ὀφθᾰλμοί (nominative plural)
τοῦ ὀφθᾰλμοῦ (genitive singular)
τοῖν ὀφθᾰλμοῖν (dual genitive)
τῶν ὀφθᾰλμῶν (genitive plural)
τῷ ὀφθᾰλμῷ (dative singular)
τοῖν ὀφθᾰλμοῖν (dative dual)
τοῖς ὀφθᾰλμοῖς (dative plural)
τὸν ὀφθᾰλμόν (accusative singular)
τὼ ὀφθᾰλμώ (accusative dual)
τοὺς ὀφθᾰλμούς (accusative plural)
ὀφθᾰλμέ (singular vocative)
ὀφθᾰλμώ (dual vocative)
ὀφθᾰλμοί (plural vocative)
ὀφθᾰλμός (nominative singular)
ὀφθᾰλμώ (dual nominative)
ὀφθᾰλμοί (nominative plural)
ὀφθᾰλμοῦ (genitive singular)
ὀφθᾰλμοῖο (genitive singular)
ὀφθᾰλμόο (genitive singular)
ὀφθᾰλμοῖῐν (dual genitive)
ὀφθᾰλμῶν (genitive plural)
ὀφθᾰλμῷ (dative singular)
ὀφθᾰλμοῖῐν (dative dual)
ὀφθᾰλμοῖσῐ (dative plural)
ὀφθᾰλμοῖσῐν (dative plural)
ὀφθᾰλμοῖς (dative plural)
ophthălmoîsĭ (dative plural)
ophthălmoîsĭn (dative plural)
ophthălmoîs (dative plural)
ὀφθᾰλμόν (accusative singular)
ὀφθᾰλμώ (accusative dual)
ὀφθᾰλμούς (accusative plural)
ὀφθᾰλμέ (singular vocative)
ὀφθᾰλμώ (dual vocative)
ὀφθᾰλμοί (plural vocative)

Greek: οφθαλμός (ofthalmós)

→ English: ophthalmo-

→ French: ophtalmo-

→ German: ophthalmo-

Traditionally derived from ὄψ (óps, “eye”) + θάλαμος (thálamos, “chamber”), but note the usual ancient Greek word for eye is the similar ὤψ (ṓps), with a long /o/. Based on irregular κτ : πτ : φθ variation seen in variants like ὄκταλλος (óktallos) and ὀπτίλλος (optíllos), as well as the suffix -αλλ- (-all-) seen in ὄκταλλος (óktallos) being difficult to explain in Indo-European terms, Beekes takes the word to be of Pre-Greek origin, with proto-form *okʷt-alʸ-m-. The hypothetical Pre-Greek form's similarity to the Proto-Indo-European equivalent *h₃ókʷs (“eye”) is coincidental, according to Beekes; he additionally notes the contrast with the Homeric gloss ὄκκον (ókkon) given to ὀφθαλμόν (ophthalmón), which may be from the Indo-European root.

compound

(botany) eye, bud (such as the eye of a potato)

eye
eye, bud (such as the eye of a potato)

(surgery) surgical bandage covering one or both eyes

(architecture, in the dual) disks forming the centers of the volutes of an Ionic capital


hooded

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slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.

(biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.

kalteva pinta

biology: sloping surface in a culture medium

(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.


glassy-eyed

en-adj

glassy-eyed (comparative more glassy-eyed, superlative most glassy-eyed)

more glassy-eyed (comparative)
most glassy-eyed (superlative)

Having a fixed stare and a wide-eyed appearance, due to boredom, preoccupation, or lack of emotion, attention, or interest.


nube

Inherited from Latin nūbēs, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). In Old Spanish, it was written nuve, nué.
The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content. Some of the terms used were words that hadn't been asociated with coffee before, like "nube".

der

La cerilla de los oídos, echada en los ojos, cura la nube.

1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 298:


guyliner

I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]

2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 29:

Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

(informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.


gimlet-eyed

en-adj

gimlet-eyed (comparative more gimlet-eyed, superlative most gimlet-eyed)

more gimlet-eyed (comparative)
most gimlet-eyed (superlative)


cilium

la-noun

cilium n (genitive ciliī or cilī); second declension

ciliī (genitive)
cilī (genitive)
cilium (nominative singular)
cilia (nominative plural)
ciliī (genitive singular)
cilī (genitive singular)
ciliōrum (genitive plural)
ciliō (dative singular)
ciliīs (dative plural)
cilium (accusative singular)
cilia (accusative plural)
ciliō (ablative singular)
ciliīs (ablative plural)
cilium (singular vocative)
cilia (plural vocative)

Dalmatian:

čeja

Italo-Romance:

Italian: ciglio

Sicilian: cigghiu, gigghiu

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: chizu, cillu, chiza

North Italian:

Friulian: cee

Istriot: sia

Lombard: zida

>? Piedmontese: sign

Romagnol: zida

Romansch: tschegl

Venetan: segia, zheja, cegia, çéi

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: cella

Old French: cil, cille

French: cil

Occitan: cilh, celh, cilha, celha

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: cella

Asturian: ceya

Galician: cella

Portuguese: celha

Spanish: ceja, cejo

Borrowings:

→ English: cilium

→ Ido: cilio

→ Portuguese: cílio

→ Romanian: ciliu

→ Spanish: cilio

→ Swedish: cilie

From Proto-Italic *keljom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-yo-m, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Alternatively, compare Ancient Greek κῠ́λᾱ (kŭ́lā, “the parts under the eyes”) (though Beekes doubts this connection and derives the latter from Pre-Greek).

cog

(anatomy) eyelid
(transferred sense) lower eyelid

(Medieval Latin, usually in the plural) eyelash


cora

la-noun

cora f (genitive corae); first declension

corae (genitive)
cora (nominative singular)
corae (nominative plural)
corae (genitive singular)
corārum (genitive plural)
corae (dative singular)
corīs (dative plural)
coram (accusative singular)
corās (accusative plural)
corā (ablative singular)
corīs (ablative plural)
cora (singular vocative)
corae (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē).


aqueous humour

(ophthalmology) The clear, watery fluid that fills the front of the eye between the cornea and the crystalline lens.

humor aquós

the fluid that fills the front of the eye


Brille

de-noun

Brille f (genitive Brille, plural Brillen)

Brille (genitive)
Brillen (plural)
Brille (nominative singular)
Brillen (definite nominative plural)
Brille (genitive singular)
Brillen (definite genitive plural)
Brille (dative singular)
Brillen (dative definite plural)
Brille (accusative singular)
Brillen (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: brýle

→ Danish: briller (pl.)

→ Kashubian: brële

→ Lower Sorbian: bryla

→ Polish: bryle

→ Swedish: brillor (pl.)

From Middle High German brille, berille, from berillus (“beryl”), from Latin beryllus (“beryl”). Compare dialectal English brills (“spectacles”).
Meaning 3 ("toilet seat") is derived in analogy with the usually round shape of spectacle frames surrounding the glass, just as a toilet seat surrounds the toilet hole.

In einer Seitenstraße kaufte ich mir bei einem Optiker eine billige, blaue Brille und setzte sie sofort auf.

1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 42:

In a side street, I bought a cheap, blue pair of glasses at an optician and immediately put them on.

(pair of) glasses, spectacles (frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes to correct vision)

(pair of) goggles (protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face)


wide-eyed

en-adj

wide-eyed (comparative more wide-eyed, superlative most wide-eyed)

more wide-eyed (comparative)
most wide-eyed (superlative)

She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.


bleary-eyed

bleary-eyed (comparative more bleary-eyed, superlative most bleary-eyed)

more bleary-eyed (comparative)
most bleary-eyed (superlative)

Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued

Bleary-eyed walkers prepared their kit for the final mountain, while the onboard crew fed and watered them, boosting people's energy levels for the last challenge.

2024 August 7, Paul Bigland, “'3 Peaks by Rail': ain't no mountain high enough”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 51:

Tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes.

γλαμυρός

tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes


eye patch

An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.


Steg

de-noun

Steg m (strong, genitive Steges or Stegs, plural Stege)

Steges (genitive)
Stegs (genitive)
Stege (plural)
Steg (nominative singular)
Stege (definite nominative plural)
Steges (genitive singular)
Stegs (genitive singular)
Stege (definite genitive plural)
Steg (dative singular)
Stege (dative singular)
Stegen (dative definite plural)
Steg (accusative singular)
Stege (accusative definite plural)

From Old High German steg. Germanic cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰 (staiga, “way”), non-Germanic ones: Russian стезя́ (stezjá), Lithuanian stiga, Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos), Albanian shteg.

(by extension) a bridge-like or connecting piece or part of certain objects.


веко

ru-noun+

N.B.— The irregular neuter plural <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="ru">ве́ки</i> (véki) is an old dual form.

ве́ко • (véko) n inan (genitive ве́ка, nominative plural ве́ки, genitive plural век)

ве́ко (canonical)
véko (romanization)
ве́ка (genitive)
ве́ки (nominative plural)
век (genitive plural)
ве́ко (nominative singular)
ве́ки (nominative plural)
ве́ка (genitive singular)
ве́к (genitive plural)
ве́ку (dative singular)
ве́кам (dative plural)
ве́ко (accusative singular)
ве́ки (accusative plural)
ве́ком (instrumental singular)
ве́ками (instrumental plural)
ве́ке (prepositional singular)
ве́ках (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic вѣко (věko), from Proto-Slavic *věko.


Augapfel

de-noun

Augapfel m (strong, genitive Augapfels, plural Augäpfel)

Augapfels (genitive)
Augäpfel (plural)
Augapfel (nominative singular)
Augäpfel (definite nominative plural)
Augapfels (genitive singular)
Augäpfel (definite genitive plural)
Augapfel (dative singular)
Augäpfeln (dative definite plural)
Augapfel (accusative singular)
Augäpfel (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ougapfel, from Old High German ougapful, augaphul, from Proto-West Germanic *augapl, equivalent to Auge (“eye”) + Apfel (“apple”). Cognate with Old English ēagæppel (“apple of the eye; pupil”).


Augenlid

de-noun

Augenlid n (strong, genitive Augenlides or Augenlids, plural Augenlider)

Augenlides (genitive)
Augenlids (genitive)
Augenlider (plural)
Augenlid (nominative singular)
Augenlider (definite nominative plural)
Augenlides (genitive singular)
Augenlids (genitive singular)
Augenlider (definite genitive plural)
Augenlid (dative singular)
Augenlide (dative singular)
Augenlidern (dative definite plural)
Augenlid (accusative singular)
Augenlider (accusative definite plural)

/ˈaʊ̯ɡn̩ˌliːt/


cockeyed

en-adj

cockeyed (comparative more cockeyed, superlative most cockeyed)

more cockeyed (comparative)
most cockeyed (superlative)

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I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.

As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.

2021 May 24, Jason Zinoman, “Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.


exophthalmos

en-noun

exophthalmos (usually uncountable, plural exophthalmoses)

(pathology) An abnormal protrusion of the eyeball from its socket.