monocle

English

Wikipedia

Joseph Chamberlain wearing a monocle

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ˈmɑnəkəl/

Noun

monocle (plural monocles)

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

Translations

a single lens

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單片眼鏡 (cmn), 单片眼镜 (cmn) (dānpiànyǎnjìng), 單眼鏡 (cmn), 单眼镜 (cmn) (dānyǎnjìng), 單透鏡 (cmn), 单透镜 (cmn) (dāntòujìng)

• Czech: monokl (cs) m
• Esperanto: monoklo (eo)
• Finnish: monokkeli (fi)
• French: monocle (fr) m
• German: Monokel (de) n
• Greek: μονόκλ (el) (monókl) n 
• Icelandic: einglyrni (is) n

• Japanese: 片眼鏡 (ja) (かためがね, katamegane)
• Macedonian: монокл (mk) (monókl) m
• Polish: monokl (pl) m
• Romanian: monoclu (ro) n
• Russian: монокль (ru) (monóklʹ) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: монокл (sh) m

  Roman: monokl (sh) m

• Spanish: monóculo (es) m
• Vietnamese: kính một mắt (vi)

See also

• glasses
• spectacles

Anagrams

• locomen

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French

Etymology

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

Noun

monocle m (plural monocles)

1. monocle