trompe-l'œil

See also: trompe l'oeil and trompe-l'oeil

English

Noun

trompe-l'œil

1. Alternative form of trompe l'oeil

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃.pl‿œj/

Noun

trompe-l’œil m (plural trompe-l’œil)

1. trompe l’oeil (type of optical illusion)

Derived terms

• en trompe-l’œil

See also

• trompe-l’œil on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

• “trompe-l'œil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Noun

trompe-l'œil m (uncountable)

1. trompe-l'oeil (type of optical illusion)

See also

• trompe-l'œil on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French trompe-l’œil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾomˈplei/ [t̪ɾõmˈplei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei

Noun

trompe-l'œil m (uncountable)

1. trompe-l'oeil (type of optical illusion)

   Synonym: trampantojo

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.