œil

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Meaning

eye, organ that is sensitive to light, helping organisms to see
glyph, rendering of a single character
eye (of a needle)

eye

eyeball

glyph

face

black eye

one eye

blackjack

twenty-one

vingt-et-un

opinion

ruling

noose

running noose

slip noose

oculus

optic

center

centre

heart

middle

eyeshot

view

front

presence

orb

floodgate

Frequency

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/œj/

Inherited from Middle French œil, from Old French oil, uel, ueil (plural olz, ialz), from Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus. Doublet of oculus, a borrowing. Cognate with Spanish ojo, Portuguese olho, Galician ollo, Italian occhio, Romanian ochi and Catalan ull. For the phonetic development of the plural, see yeux.