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eye
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?, IPA(key): /a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: ay, aye, I
Etymology 1
From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, y?e, ey?e, from Old English ?age (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ok?-, *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”).
See also Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic ??? (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ???????? (ophthalmós, “eye”), Armenian ??? (akn), Avestan ????????????? (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit ????? (ák?i). Related to ogle.
The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ?agan, nominative and accusative plural of Old English ?age (“eye”).
Noun
eye (plural eyes or (obsolete or dialectal) eyen)
- An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eye
- Hyponym: ocellus
- The visual sense.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- Attention, notice.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- Synonym: perceptiveness
- A meaningful stare or look.
- A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
- Synonym: eyelet
- The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
- A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
- A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone.
- That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
- Tinge; shade of colour.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
- Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
- One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
- (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
- (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
- (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
- (usually in the plural) View or opinion.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ai
Translations
See eye/translations § Noun.
See also
- tapetum lucidum
References
- Eye (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- eye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)
- (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
- After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
- They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
- 1859, Fraser's Magazine (volume 60, page 671)
- Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
- Synonym: gaze (poetic)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
Derived terms
- eye up
- ineye
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably from rebracketing of a nye as an eye.
Noun
eye (plural eyes)
- A brood.
- an eye of pheasants
Anagrams
- Yee, yee
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English e?e, from Proto-West Germanic *agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ég?os. Doublet of awe.
Alternative forms
- eie, e?e, e??e, ey?e, ei?e
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /?ej?/
- IPA(key): /??i?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?i?(?)
Noun
eye (uncountable)
- awe, reverence, worshipfulness
- horror, panic
- that which creates reverence; the exercise of power
- that which incites awe
- that which incites terror
Related terms
- eifulle (rare)
- eiliche (rare)
Descendants
- English: ey (obsolete)
References
- “eie, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
Etymology 2
Noun
eye
- Alternative form of eie
Tatar
Adverb
eye
- very, of course, emphatic adverb
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Interjection
eye
- hey!
References
- Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?[5] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, page 126
Tocharian B
Noun
eye ?
- sheep
Umbundu
Pronoun
eye
- (third-person singular pronoun)
See also
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collyrium
English
Etymology
From Latin coll?rium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kollúrion, “poultice”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??l????m/
Noun
collyrium (countable and uncountable, plural collyria or collyriums)
- A lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve.
- Loosely, any product applied to or around the eyes; kohl.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
- […] there were rings of collyrium about her eyes.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (kollúrion, “eye salve”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kol?ly?.ri.um/, [k?l??l?y??i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kol?li.ri.um/, [k?l?li??ium]
Noun
coll?rium n (genitive coll?ri? or coll?r?); second declension
- eye-salve
- pessary, suppository
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Catalan: col·liri
- French: collyre
- Galician: colirio
- Italian: collirio
- Portuguese: colírio
- Spanish: colirio
References
- collyrium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- collyrium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- collyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- collyrium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- collyrium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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