pupille

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

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

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pupille f (plural pupilles)

1. pupil (of the eye)

pupille m or f by sense (plural pupilles)

1. an orphan under guardianship, a ward

• → Polish: pupil

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

pupille f

1. plural of pupilla

pūpille

1. vocative singular of pūpillus

Borrowed from Latin pupilla.

pupille oblique singular, m (oblique plural pupilles, nominative singular pupilles, nominative plural pupille)

1. orphan (child of whom both the parents have died)

• English: pupil

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