different between monocle vs monocular

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?m?n?k?l/

Noun

monocle (plural monocles)

1. A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
2. (obsolete) A one-eyed animal.

Translations

See also

• glasses
• spectacles

Anagrams

• locomen

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French monocle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo??n?.kl?/
• Hyphenation: mo?no?cle

Noun

monocle m (plural monocles, diminutive monocletje n)

1. monocle [from mid 19th c.]

Synonyms

• lorgnet
• lorgnon
• oogglas

French

Etymology

From Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

Noun

monocle m (plural monocles)

1. monocle

Descendants

• ? Dutch: monocle
• ? English: monocle

Further reading

• “monocle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

mono- +? ocular

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??n?kj?l??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?n??k.j?.l?(?)/, /?m?n??k.j?.l?(?)/

Adjective

monocular (not comparable)

1. Having one eye.
   • 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

     ...one of his sparks alighted upon my eye and destroyed it making me a monocular ape;

2. Related to a monocle.
   • 1906, Amelia Barr, The Man Between

     You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope.

4. Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.

Translations

Noun

monocular (plural monoculars)

1. (rare) A monocle.
   • 1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

     The moony monocular set in his eye / Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.

2. (retronym) A monocular telescope, as opposed to binoculars.

Anagrams

• colourman

Romanian

Etymology

From French monoculaire

Adjective

monocular m or n (feminine singular monocular?, masculine plural monoculari, feminine and neuter plural monoculare)

1. monocular

Declension