different between eye vs supercilium

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)

1. An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eye

   Hyponym: ocellus

2. The visual sense.

3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.

4. Attention, notice.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss.

   Synonym: perceptiveness
6. A meaningful stare or look.

7. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
8. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
9. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
10. 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

11. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
12. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
13. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
14. A reproductive bud in a potato.
15. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
16. 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.
17. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
18. Tinge; shade of colour.
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours

      Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

19. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
20. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
21. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
22. (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
23. (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)

1. (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)

2. (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)

1. 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)

1. awe, reverence, worshipfulness
2. horror, panic
3. that which creates reverence; the exercise of power
4. that which incites awe
5. 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

1. Alternative form of eie

Tatar

Adverb

eye

1. very, of course, emphatic adverb

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Interjection

eye

1. 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 ?

1. sheep

Umbundu

Pronoun

eye

1. (third-person singular pronoun)

See also

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin supercilium (“eyebrow; brow, ridge; pride, arrogance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u?.p??s?l.i.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?su.p??s?l.i.?m/
• Rhymes: -?li?m

Noun

supercilium (plural supercilia)

1. (anatomy, rare) The eyebrow (arch of hair above each eye).
   1. The region of the eyebrows.
   2. (anatomy) The overhanging margin of a bony cavity (as of the acetabulum).
   3. (zoology) A superciliary marking or structure, especially in a bird.
2. (architecture, classical) The narrow fillet above the cymatium of a cornice.
   1. A fillet above and below the scotia of an Attic base.
   2. The lintel or transverse part of a door frame.
3. (rare, humorous) Superciliousness, haughtiness; an instance of this, a supercilious demeanor.

Translations

References

• “supercilium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “supercilium”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From super- (“above, over”) +? cilium (“an eyelid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /su.per?ki.li.um/, [s??p?r?k?li???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /su.per?t??i.li.um/, [sup?r?t??i?lium]

Noun

supercilium n (genitive supercili? or supercil?); second declension

1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) The eyebrow.
   1. The prominent part of a thing, the brow, ridge, summit.
2. The nod, the will.
3. Pride, haughtiness, arrogance, sternness, superciliousness.

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

• supercilium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• supercilium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• supercilium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• supercilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette