oculus

[ok-yuh-luh s]

noun, plural oc·u·li

[ok-yuh-lahy] /ˈɒk yəˌlaɪ/.

an eye.
Architecture. a circular opening, especially one at the apex of a dome.
Archaeology. a design representing an eye, as on funerary pottery found in megalithic tombs of Europe.

Origin of oculus

< New Latin, Latin: eye

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Related Words for oculi

ocular, blinder, optic, lamp, headlight, oculus, peeper, eyeball, pie

Examples from the Web for oculi

Historical Examples of oculi

No wonder that the power of the archdeacons, the oculi episcopi, increased tenfold.
Chaucer and His Times
Grace E. Hadow
Oculi tanquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent—The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
James Wood
Avem Philomelam lingua carere pro certo affirmare possum, nisi me oculi fallunt.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 1 of 3)
Thomas Browne
There is, however, another muscle—the Retractor oculi—belonging to the same group which is innervated by the VIth nerve.
The Origin of Vertebrates
Walter Holbrook Gaskell

Word Origin and History for oculi

oculus

"an eye," plural oculi, 1857, from Latin oculus "an eye" (see eye (n.)).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

oculi in Medicine

oculus

[ŏk′yə-ləs]

n. pl. oc•u•li (-lī′)

Eye.

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