octavus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === 8vus === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *oktāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓwos, from *oḱtṓw, whence octō (“eight”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔkˈtaː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [okˈtaː.vus] === Numeral === octāvus (feminine octāva, neuter octāvum); first/second-declension numeral eighth; the ordinal number between septimus and nōnus. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “octavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “octavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "octavus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “octavus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.