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óculo

Portuguese, noun/ˈɔ.ku.lu/

óculo is spelled Ó-C-U-L-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,861st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Óculo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “eyeglass (artificial lens used to aid vision, especially a monocle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “objeto usado no rosto, contendo uma única lente suspensa através de um aro e sustentada por uma haste na…”.

What does óculo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineeyeglass (artificial lens used to aid vision, especially a monocle)

  2. 2

    masculineoculus

    Consegue-se vislumbrar o céu através do óculo do Panteão de Roma.

  3. 3

    masculinepeephole, spyhole

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. objeto usado no rosto, contendo uma única lente suspensa através de um aro e sustentada por uma haste na orelha ou sustentada manualmente; mais comumente encontrado no plural (óculos), contendo duas lentes suportadas através de hastes nas orelhas 2. abertura na fachada ou no interior de um prédio que pode ser redonda ou de outras formas, localizada geralmente acima de uma abertura principal ou inclusa em frontões e frontispícios

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of óculo

  • óculos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce óculo?

  • Brazil /ˈɔ.ku.lu/
  • Portugal /ˈɔ.ku.lu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to óculo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is óculo in Portuguese?

óculo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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