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interesting! French uses the same word for both, "lentille", and German too, "Linse"
Lente for lens and lenteja for lentil in Spanish
Latin/Romance fondness of diminutives hitting again...
What happened with the French word is a dime a dozen in Romance philology. Other cases like this are:
- IT orecchia, PT orelha "ear" ← Lat. auricula "little ear"; cf auris "ear"
- IT ginocchio, PT joelho "knee" ← Lat. geniculum "little knee"; cf genu "knee"
- PT ovelha "sheep" ← ouicula "little sheep"; cf ouis "sheep"
- IT muscolo "muscle" ← musculus "little mouse/rat"; cf mus "mouse/rat"
- Lat. stella "star" ← Proto-Italic *stēr-la "little star"; cf Greek astḗr "star"
- Lat. oculus "eye" ← PIE *h₃ókʷ-e-lós "little seer", "little sighter"; cf Greek ṓps "eye"
I'm listing Italian and Portuguese examples for my own convenience, but they pop up in almost every Romance language.)
Related: Video is the latin verb "video". "To see".
"I see" actually. "To see" would be videre.
This is one of like 20 things i remember from 4 years of latin in school.
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Lithuanian uses lęšis for both.