œil
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See also: oeil
Contents
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- oeil (nonstandard)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French œil, from Old French oil, uel, ueil (plural olz, ialz), from Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus, from Proto-Italic *okelos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (anatomy, plural yeux) eye, organ that is sensitive to light, helping organisms to see
- (plural œils) glyph, rendering of a single character
- (plural œils) eye (of a needle)
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from œil
External links[edit]
- “œil” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French ueil.
Noun[edit]
œil m (plural yeulx)
Descendants[edit]
- French: œil
Categories:
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms with audio links
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Anatomy
- French terms spelled with Œ
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- frm:Anatomy