pupille

See also: Pupille

French

Etymology

From Middle French pupille (14th c.), a borrowing from Latin pupillus, pupilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.pij/, (less often) /py.pil/

• Audio:

  (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

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

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

• English: pupil

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pupille, supplement)