oculus – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of oculus

Noun: oculus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singularoculus
Pluraloculī

Genitive

Singularoculī
Pluraloculōrum

Dative

Singularoculō
Pluraloculīs

Accusative

Singularoculum
Pluraloculōs

Ablative

Singularoculō
Pluraloculīs

Vocative

Singularocule
Pluraloculī

Sample Sentences

  • Quam diū quisquam erit quī tē dēfendēre audeat, vīvēs, et vīvēs ita ut nunc vīvis, multīs meīs et firmīs praesidiīs obsessus nē commōvēre tē contrā rem pūblicam possīs. Multōrum tē etiam oculī et aurēs nōn sentientem, sīcut adhūc fēcērunt, speculābuntur atque custōdient. (As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.) [63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes]
  • ā saeculō nōn audiērunt neque auribus percēpērunt oculus nōn vīdit Deus absque tē quae praeparāstī expectantibus tē. (For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.) [c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Isaiah.64.4]
  • admōvēre oculīs distantia sīdera nostrīs aetheraque ingeniō supposuēre sūō. (Translation by Anne and Peter Wiseman
  • They brought close the distant stars with the eyes of the mind, and made the heavens subject to their intellect.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti I.305–306]

Nouns inflected like oculus

priāpismus, scāpus, servus, cuneolus, sargus, saccus, scarus, scinus, scopus, illēgitimus, sorbus, sophus, somnus, Hispānus, soccus, sirpus, siclus, icterus, cunīculus, xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
4. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
5. Proto-Italic *-elos
6. Latin -ulus
7. Latin oculus
8. De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *okʷ(e)los m or *okʷ(e)lom n, ultimately from an uncertain descendant of the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ekʷ- (“to see; eye”) suffixed with -ulus (from Proto-Italic *-elos, from Proto-Indo-European *-lós). Witczak 2021 argues it was originally a neuter diminutive, whereas Sen 2015 sees it as an agent noun formation. Compare the gender of the cognates Sanskrit अक्षि n (ákṣi, “eye”) and Ancient Greek ὄσσε n (ósse, “eyes”) and ὤψ f (ṓps, “eye”).
9. If the noun was originally neuter, then the masculine nominative singular oculus may be a back-formation from an original neuter dual form oculī (reinterpreted as a masculine nominative plural), as proposed by Alan Nussbaum. For other survivals of the second-declension neuter dual ending, see also the masculine-like plurals of caelum (“sky”), frēnum (“bridle”), and rāstrum (“rake”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὄσσε'.

Verbs referencing "oculus"

French Nouns œil, Italian Nouns occhio, Catalan Nouns ull, Danish Nouns øje, Old Portuguese Nouns olho, Portuguese Nouns olho, Romanian Nouns ochi, English Nouns ullage, Icelandic Nouns auga, Old Norse Nouns auga, Italian Nouns oculo, Portuguese Nouns olhar, Italian Nouns occhiata, Gothic Nouns 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉, Ancient Greek Nouns ὄσσε, Galician Nouns ollo, Asturian Nouns güeyu, Portuguese Nouns oculista, French Nouns oculiste, Portuguese Nouns olhada, Galician Nouns illó, Galician Nouns ollar, Latvian Nouns acs, English Nouns abducens oculi, Asturian Nouns güeyada, Portuguese Nouns óculos, Galician Nouns ollada, Catalan Nouns òcul, Catalan Nouns ullada.

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