ocelo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ocellus.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈsɛ.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈsɛ.lo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈsɛ.lu/

Noun

ocelo m (plural ocelos)

(zoology) eye (mark on an animal resembling an eye)
(zoology) the eye of arthropods

Further reading

“ocelo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ocellus.

Noun

ocelo m (plural ocelos)

(zoology) eye (mark on an animal resembling an eye)
(zoology) the eye of arthropods

Further reading

“ocelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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