Noun: œil
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | œil |
| Plural m | yeux; œils |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like œil
œil,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
4. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
5. Proto-Italic *-elos
6. Latin -ulus
7. Classical Latin oculus
8. Vulgar Latin oclus
9. Old French ueil
10. Middle French œil
11. French œil
12. Inherited from Middle French œil, from Old French oil, uel, ueil (plural olz, ialz), from Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus. Doublet of oculus, a borrowing. Cognate with Spanish ojo, Portuguese olho, Galician ollo, Italian occhio, Romanian ochi and Catalan ull. For the phonetic development of the plural, see yeux. See: Latin Nouns '
oculus', Spanish Nouns '
ojo', Portuguese Nouns '
olho', Galician Nouns '
ollo', Italian Nouns '
occhio', Romanian Nouns '
ochi', Catalan Nouns '
ull'.
Verbs referencing "œil"
Spanish Nouns
ojo, Catalan Nouns
ull, Portuguese Nouns
olho, German Nouns
Fettauge.
Translations