óculo

See also: oculo and oculo-

Portuguese

Folded spectacles with bicolour frame (#1)

oculus (#2)

Barack Obama looking through the Oval Office door peephole (#3)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oculus (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-. Doublet of olho, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ku.lu/

• Hyphenation: ó‧cu‧lo

Noun

óculo m (plural óculos)

1. (chiefly in the plural) glasses, (formal) spectacles, (US) eyeglass
2. (architecture) oculus

   Consegue-se vislumbrar o céu através do óculo do Panteão de Roma.

   One can glimpse the sky through the oculus of the Pantheon of Rome.

3. peephole, (UK) spyhole

   Synonym: olho mágico

Descendants

• Macanese: oclo

Further reading

• “óculo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “óculo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “óculo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oculus. Doublet of ojo, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈokulo/ [ˈo.ku.lo]
• Rhymes: -okulo
• Syllabification: ó‧cu‧lo

Noun

óculo m (plural óculos)

1. (architecture) oculus (round or oval window)

Further reading

• “óculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10