ocelo
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ocellus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈsɛ.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈsɛ.lo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈsɛ.lu/
Noun
ocelo m (plural ocelos)
- (zoology) eye (mark on an animal resembling an eye)
- (zoology) the eye of arthropods
Further reading
- “ocelo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin ocellus.
Noun
ocelo m (plural ocelos)
- (zoology) eye (mark on an animal resembling an eye)
- (zoology) the eye of arthropods
Further reading
- “ocelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014