cocles

• cocules

Referred to oculus with Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Possibly related to Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “cyclops”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.kɫɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.kles]
• Homophone: Cocles

cocles m (genitive coclitis); third declension

1. one-eyed person
2. half-blind person

Third-declension noun.

• “cō̆cles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 cŏclēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “332/3”
• “cocles”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.