ab oculis
Latin
Alternative forms
- aboculis, abocellus, abocellis, avocellus (medieval)
Etymology
From an earlier orbus ab oculīs (“deprived of eyes”).
Adjective
ab oculīs (indeclinable) (Late Latin)
- blind
- 2005, Matthew C. Baldwin, Whose Acts of Peter?: Text and Historical Context of the Actus Vercellenses, Mohr Siebeck (→ISBN), page 237 (in English)
- iacentibus autem nobis solae illae uiduae stabant, quae erant ab oculis. ...
- 2005, Matthew C. Baldwin, Whose Acts of Peter?: Text and Historical Context of the Actus Vercellenses, Mohr Siebeck (→ISBN), page 237 (in English)
Descendants
- Franco-Provençal: aouillo, aveugle, aveuglo, avoouguio, avoouillo, avouillo, avouégllo
- Old French: avogle, aveule
- Middle French: aveugle
- French: aveugle
- Haitian Creole: avèg
- Norman: aveugl'ye (Jèrriais)
- French: aveugle
- Picard: aveûle, aveûgue
- Walloon: aveule
- Middle French: aveugle
References
- abocellus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aboculus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “abocellus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 5/2
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ab oculis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, pages 35–37