different between eyelid vs palpebra

English

Etymology

From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, ei?elid, eghe-lydd, y?e-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, equivalent to eye +? lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”).

Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.l?d/

Noun

eyelid (plural eyelids)

1. A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.

Synonyms

• blepharon
• palpebra

Synonyms

• blepharon

Derived terms

• bat an eyelid
• eyelidded
• eyelidless
• hang by the eyelids

Related terms

• eyebrow
• eyelash

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin palpebra (“an eyelid”). Compare Middle English palpebre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pal.p?b.??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæl.p?b.??/, /pæl?pi.b??/
• Rhymes: -i?b??

Noun

palpebra (plural palpebrae or (archaic) palpebræ)

1. (anatomy) An eyelid.

Related terms

• palpebral (adjective)

References

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

Anagrams

• rappable

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p?l?pe.b??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pal?pe.b?a/

Noun

palpebra f (plural palpebres)

1. Alternative form of parpella

Interlingua

Noun

palpebra (plural palpebras)

1. eyelid

Italian

Etymology

From Latin palpebra (“eyelid”), from palp? (“touch softly; caress, flatter”).

Noun

palpebra f (plural palpebre)

1. eyelid

Latin

Alternative forms

• palfebra (post-classical)
• *palpetra, *palpetrum (Vulgar)

Pronunciation

• palpebra: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pal.pe.bra/, [?pä??p?b?ä]
• palpebra: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pal.pe.bra/, [?p?lp?b??]
• palpebr?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pal.pe.bra?/, [?pä??p?b?ä?]
• palpebr?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pal.pe.bra/, [?p?lp?b??]

Etymology 1

From palp? (“to touch softly; to caress, flatter”) +? -bra (nominal suffix).

Noun

palpebra f (genitive palpebrae); first declension

1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) An eyelid.

   Synonym: cilium

2. (in the plural) The eyelashes.

   Synonym: (Medieval Latin) cilia

3. (Ecclesiastical Latin, in the plural) The eyes.

   Synonym: ocul?

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• palpebr?lis
• palpebr?ris
• palpebr?

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

palpebr? f

1. ablative singular of palpebra

References

• palpebra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palpebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

See also

• oculus