# binocular
## English
### Etymology

From French binoculaire.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪˈnɒkjʊlɚ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

binocular (not comparable)
* Using two eyes or viewpoints; especially, using two eyes or viewpoints to ascertain distance.
    a binocular microscope or telescope
** 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:Most animals are binocular.
** 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org‎, retrieved 2013-09-08:our perception of distance arises from the geometry of binocular vision and our early learning seems based on calculating probabilities.

#### Derived terms

* binoculared
* binocularity
* binocularly
* binocular O
* binocular vision
* binoscope
* stereobinocular

#### Translations
### Noun

binocular (plural binoculars)
* attributive form of binoculars
* A pair of binoculars.
** 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎:He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
* (dated) Any binocular glass, such as an opera glass, telescope, or microscope.

#### Translations
### See also

* binoculars

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From bi- +‎ -n- +‎ ocular.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈlaʁ/ [bi.no.kuˈlah]
* (Brazil) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈlaʁ/ [bi.no.kuˈlah]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈlaɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈlaʁ/ [bi.no.kuˈlaχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈlaɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bi.nu.kuˈlaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bi.nu.kuˈlaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /bi.nu.kuˈla.ɾi/

#### Adjective

binocular m or f (plural binoculares)
* binocular (using two eyes or viewpoints)

### Etymology 2

From binóculos +‎ -ar.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈla(ʁ)/ [bi.no.kuˈla(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈla(ʁ)/ [bi.no.kuˈla(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈla(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈla(ʁ)/ [bi.no.kuˈla(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /bi.no.kuˈla(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bi.nu.kuˈlaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bi.nu.kuˈlaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /bi.nu.kuˈla.ɾi/

#### Verb

binocular (first-person singular present binoculo, first-person singular preterite binoculei, past participle binoculado)
* to observe using binoculars

##### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French binoculaire.

### Adjective

binocular m or n (feminine singular binoculară, masculine plural binoculari, feminine and neuter plural binoculare)
* binocular

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From French binoculaire, from bini (“double”) and oculaire (“ocular”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /binokuˈlaɾ/ [bi.no.kuˈlaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: bi‧no‧cu‧lar

### Adjective

binocular m or f (masculine and feminine plural binoculares)
* binocular

### Noun

binocular m (plural binoculares)
* (often in plural) binoculars
    Synonym: prismáticos

### Further reading

* “binocular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10