Translation
glasses, spectacles
Word origin
A transparent Esperanto compound: okulo ('eye') plus vitro ('glass', from Latin vitrum), with the plural -j because a pair has two lenses. Literally 'eye-glasses', exactly as in English.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- okulo + vitro
- English cognates
- vitreous, vitrine
Examples
.
I cannot read without my glasses.
?
Where are my glasses?
okulvitrojn.
He is wearing new glasses.
Like English glasses, is normally plural: one okulvitro would be a single lens, such as a monocle. The compound decodes itself - (eye) + (glass) + -j (plural).
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