ocellus

From Latin ocellus (“little eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

ocellus (plural ocelli)

1. A simple eye consisting of a single lens and a small number of sensory cells.
2. An eyelike marking in the form of a spot or ring of colour, as on the wing of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock.

• ocellus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Cuellos, locules

From oculus (“eye”) +‎ -lus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oˈkel.lus/, [ɔˈkɛlːʲʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈt͡ʃel.lus/, [oˈt͡ʃɛlːus]

ocellus m (genitive ocellī); second declension

1. Diminutive of oculus: little eye
2. darling

Second-declension noun.

• “ocellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ocellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ocellus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ocellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “ocellus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ocellus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray