κιάλι

Borrowed from Italian occhiali (“eyeglasses”), plural of occhiale; the apheresis perhaps resulting via crasis of article το (to) with an earlier Byzantine Greek ὀκκιάλιν (okkiálin); from occhio (“eye”) +‎ -ale, from Vulgar Latin oclus from Latin oculus (“eye”) from Proto-Italic *okʷelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”); whence distantly cognate to Ancient Greek ὄψῐς (ópsis, “sight”) hence όψη (ópsi).

• 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) binoculars, spyglasses, opera glasses
   See also: κιάλια

   Synonym: διόπτρα (dióptra)

• κιάλια (kiália)
• κιαλάρω (kialáro)

• κιάλι - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.