pupille

See also: Pupille

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pupilla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /py.pij/
  • (file)

Noun

pupille f (plural pupilles)

  1. pupil (of the eye)

Noun

pupille m or f by sense (plural pupilles)

  1. an orphan under guardianship, a ward

Descendants

  • Polish: pupil

Further reading

Italian

Noun

pupille f

  1. plural of pupilla

Latin

Noun

pūpille

  1. vocative singular of pūpillus

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pupilla.

Noun

pupille oblique singular, m (oblique plural pupilles, nominative singular pupilles, nominative plural pupille)

  1. orphan (child of whom both the parents have died)

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pupille, supplement)
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