ὀκτώ

See also: οκτώ

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: ὀκτώ (oktṓ)     Ordinal: ὄγδοος (ógdoos)     Adverbial: ὀκτᾰ́κῐς (oktákis)     Collective: ὀκτᾰ́ς (oktás), ὀγδοᾰ́ς (ogdoás)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *oktṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Cognates include Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa), Latin octō, and Old English eahta (English eight).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ok.tɔ̌ː/ → /okˈto/ → /okˈto/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ok.tɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /okˈto/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /okˈto/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /okˈto/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /okˈto/

Numeral

ὀκτώ • (oktṓ) (ordinal ὄγδοος, adverbial ὀκτᾰ́κῐς)

1. eight

Derived terms

• ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous, “octopus, eight footed”)

 

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ὀκτώ (oktṓ)
  • Greek: οκτώ (októ), οχτώ (ochtó)
  • Mariupol Greek: охто́ (oxtó), ухто́ (uxtó)
  • → Romani: oxto
    • Traveller Norwegian: åkta
• → English: octo-, octa-

References

• “ὀκτώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀκτώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὀκτώ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὀκτώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὀκτώ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὀκτώ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3638 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • eight idem, page 263.