oculus

Other forms of oculus

plural

oculi

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oculus

What does oculus mean?

oculus means "the organ of sight".

How many syllables are in oculus?

oculus has 3 syllables: o-cu-lus. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for oculus?

Close synonyms include eye, optic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oculus a common word?

oculus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.