monocle

monocle

English

Joseph Chamberlain wearing a monocle

Etymology

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) +‎ oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəkəl/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

monocle (plural monocles)

1. A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
2. (obsolete) A one-eyed animal.

Translations

a single lens

Bulgarian: монокъл m (monokǎl) Chinese: Mandarin: 單片眼鏡／单片眼镜 (dānpiànyǎnjìng), 單眼鏡／单眼镜 (zh) (dānyǎnjìng), 單透鏡／单透镜 (dāntòujìng) Czech: monokl (cs) m Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: monocle (nl) m Esperanto: monoklo Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: monokkeli (fi) French: monocle (fr) m German: Monokel (de) n Greek: μονόκλ (el) n (monókl) Icelandic: einglyrni n Ido: monoklo (io) Irish: leathspéacla m Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 片眼鏡 (かためがね, katamegane) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 단안경 (danan'gyeong) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: yeklarî (ku), yeklêjî (ku) Macedonian: моно́кл m (monókl) Malayalam: ഒറ്റച്ചില്ലുകണ്ണട (oṟṟaccillukaṇṇaṭa) Norwegian: Bokmål: monokkel m Nynorsk: monokkel m Ottawa: shkiinzhgokaajgan Polish: monokl (pl) m Portuguese: monóculo m Romanian: monoclu (ro) n Russian: моно́кль (ru) m (monóklʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: моно̀кл m Roman: monòkl (sh) m Spanish: monóculo (es) m Swedish: monokel (sv) c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: kính một mắt

See also

• glasses
• spectacles

Anagrams

• locomen

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French monocle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoːˈnɔ.klə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: mo‧no‧cle

Noun

monocle m (plural monocles, diminutive monocletje n)

1. monocle [from mid 19th c.]

Synonyms

• lorgnet
• lorgnon
• oogglas

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French

Etymology

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

Noun

monocle m (plural monocles)

1. monocle

Descendants

• → Dutch: monocle
• → English: monocle

Further reading

• “monocle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.