monocle

English

Joseph Chamberlain wearing a monocle

Etymology

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) +‎ oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnəkəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

a single lens

• Bulgarian: монокъл m (monokǎl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單片眼鏡／单片眼镜 (dānpiànyǎnjìng), 單眼鏡／单眼镜 (zh) (dānyǎnjìng), 單透鏡／单透镜 (dāntòujìng)

• Czech: monokl (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: monocle (nl) m
• Esperanto: monoklo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: monokkeli (fi)
• French: monocle (fr) m
• German: Monokel (de) n
• Greek: μονόκλ (el) n (monókl)
• Icelandic: einglyrni n
• Ido: monoklo (io)
• Irish: leathspéacla m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 片眼鏡 (ja) (かためがね, katamegane)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 단안경 (danan'gyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: yeklarî (ku), yeklêjî (ku)

• Macedonian: моно́кл m (monókl)
• Malayalam: ഒറ്റച്ചില്ലുകണ്ണട (oṟṟaccillukaṇṇaṭa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: monokkel m

  Nynorsk: monokkel m

• Ottawa: shkiinzhgokaajgan
• Polish: monokl (pl) m
• Portuguese: monóculo m
• Romanian: monoclu (ro) n
• Russian: моно́кль (ru) m (monóklʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: моно̀кл m

  Roman: monòkl (sh) m

• Spanish: monóculo (es) m
• Swedish: monokel (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: kính một mắt

See also

• glasses
• spectacles

Anagrams

• locomen

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French monocle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoːˈnɔ.klə/

• Audio:

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• 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

• → Greek: μονόκλ (monókl)
• → Dutch: monocle
• → English: monocle

Further reading

• “monocle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.