Word Watch 7, "pupil"

Trying to come up with a word, I wondered about the word pupil--both as a student and the part of the eye. Interestingly enough, WordReference.com points to the relationship between the two. I shouldn't be surprised after all Seth Leher has shared with us. The connection between pupil the student and pupil the part of the eye goes back to the Latin root pupa, meaning "girl doll."Moving into French, pupilla is "girl" and pupillus is boy--both originally meaning orphan or ward. This was not surprising to me as a student is not a far stretch from a ward. What is intriguing is how pupil comes to mean the center of the eye. According to this website, the second meaning comes from "the phenomenon whereby one can see a tiny reflected image of oneself in another person's eye" and it comes from the feminine pupilla.