κιάλι

Borrowed from Italian occhiali (“eyeglasses”), the apheresis perhaps resulting via crasis of article το (to) with an earlier Byzantine Greek ὀκκιάλιν (okkiálin).

• IPA^(key): /ˈca.li/
• Hyphenation: κιά‧λι

κιάλι • (kiáli) n

1. scope, telescope, spyglass, field glass; a portable optical instrument containing a lens used for magnification to see distant objects
2. (in the plural) See κιάλια (kiália, “binoculars, spyglasses, opera glasses”).

• κιάλια (kiália)
• κιαλάρω (kialáro)
• όψη (ópsi)

• κιάλι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language