different between window vs oculus

English

Etymology

From Middle English windowe, windohe, windoge, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye", "wind-aperture", "wind-hole”), i.e. ("air-hole"), equivalent to wind +? eye. Cognate with Scots wyndo, wyndok, winnock (“window”), Faroese vindeyga (“window”), Norwegian Nynorsk vindauga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu (“window”), Danish vindue (“window”), Swedish vindöga (“window”), Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?). Superseded Middle English fenestre, fenester (“window”) borrowed from Old French fenestre (“window”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?nd??/
• (US) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?ndo?/, [?w???o?]
• (some accents) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd??
• Hyphenation: win?dow

Noun

window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)

1. An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
   • 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p.173:

     A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
2. An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
3. (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
4. A period of time when something is available.
5. A restricted range.
   • 2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning (page 109)

     In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.

6. (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
7. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
   • 1709, William King, Art of Cookery

     till he has windows on his bread and butter

8. (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
9. (military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)

Coordinate terms

• door

Derived terms

Related terms

• wind

Translations

Verb

window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with windows.
2. (transitive) To place at or in a window.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k.j?l.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k.j?l.?s/
• Rhymes: -?kj?l?s

Noun

oculus (plural oculi)

1. (architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
   1. The central boss of a volute.
   2. An opening at the apex of a dome.

Translations

References

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• oclus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ok?elos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ók?-, *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”), probably through a later root *?k?elos. Cognates include Sanskrit ????? (ák?i), Ancient Greek ???? (ósse), Gothic ???????????????? (aug?), Old English ?a?e (English eye), Proto-Slavic *oko.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.ku.lus/, [??k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.ku.lus/, [???kulus]

Noun

oculus m (genitive ocul?); second declension

1. (literally, anatomy) eye

   Synonym: (Ecclesiastical Latin) palpebra
2. (transferred sense):
   1. sight, vision
   2. (poetic, literary) luminary of the sun and stars
   3. spot resembling an eye, such as on a peacock feather
   4. (botany):
      1. eye, bud, bourgeon
      2. bud, bulb or knob on many roots, on the reed, etc.
      3. great houseleek

         Synonym: aiz?um majus

3. (figuratively):
   1. principal ornament
   2. eye of the soul, mind's eye

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ocul?ri?rius
• ocul?re
• ocul?riter
• ocul?ta

Descendants

(See oclus for inherited Romance descendants)

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ocul?ri?rius
• ocul?re
• ocul?riter
• ocul?ta

Descendants

(See oclus for inherited Romance descendants)

References

• oculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• oculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• oculus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]