ocellus

From Latin ocellus (“little eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

• IPA^(key): /əʊˈsɛləs/

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ocellus (plural ocelli)

1. A simple eye consisting of a single lens and a small number of sensory cells.
2. An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.

   Synonym: eyespot

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• Cuellos, locules

From oculus (“eye”) + -lus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔˈkɛl.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈt͡ʃɛl.lus]

ocellus m (genitive ocellī); second declension

1. diminutive of oculus: little eye
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 3.18
2. darling

Second-declension noun.

• subocellus

• “ocellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ocellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ocellus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ocellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ocellus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ocellus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray