aveugle

From Middle French aveugle from Old French avogle, from Late Latin ab oculīs (“without eyes”, literally “away from the eyes”), possibly a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ ὀμμάτων (apò ommátōn), or from a Latin construction viduus ab oculīs (literally “widowed from the eyes”) or orbus ab oculīs (literally “orphaned from the eyes”) (compare Italian orbo, Catalan and Romanian orb (“blind”)).

Less likely from a Latin alboculus (“white-eyed”) (attested in the Glosses of Kassel), from albus + oculus.

The current French form is either an exception to the normal sound shift from Latin '-cl-' or a semi-learned formation; cf. the dialectal and popular aveuil (older aveule, avule); see also œil.

• IPA^(key): /a.vœɡl/

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• Homophones: aveuglent, aveugles
• Hyphenation: a‧veugle

aveugle (plural aveugles)

1. blind (physically unable to see)

   une personne aveugle ― a blind person

2. (figuratively) blind (having poor judgement; unable or unwilling to acknowledge, or to put any effort toward understanding)
3. (figuratively) blind (unguided or unchecked by objective judgement)

   amour aveugle ― blind love

   foi aveugle ― blind faith

aveugle m or f by sense (plural aveugles)

1. a blind man or woman

• amblyope
• non-voyant (PC)
• miro (familiar)

• au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois
• aveuglette
• chien d'aveugle
• point aveugle
• vallée aveugle

aveugle

1. inflection of aveugler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• cécité

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ab oculis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, pages 35–37
• “aveugle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.