octoginta Latin · revision 32984

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₃(e)ḱtéh₃}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔk.toːˈɡɪn.taː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ok.toˈd͡ʒin.ta]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''octōgintā''' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)

+ Scaevola in the ''Digest'' has ''octāgintā'',^(OLD 2012) and Vitruvius ''octuāgintā''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|octō|-gintā|t1=eight]], formed like [[triginta|alt=trīgintā]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Wiktionary traces it to [[ine-pro|*oktōḱomt]], from earlier [[ine-pro|*oḱto(w)-dḱomt|t=eight tens]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes [[m|la|octō]] back to [[itc-pro|*oktō]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃(e)ḱtéh₃|t=eight]].^(de Vaan 2008) The numeral is cognate with [[grc|ὀγδοήκοντα|tr=ogdoḗkonta|t=eighty]], [[sa|अशीति|tr=aśītí-|t=eighty]] and [[ae|aštāiti-|t=eighty]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus;^(Köbler 2010) de Vaan lists it from Cicero.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the cardinal number eighty, indeclinable.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes of a king who had reigned eighty years.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Grammarians list it among the indeclinable numerals in ⟨-a⟩, and poets sometimes shorten the final vowel.^(TLL) Church Latin keeps it as eighty.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the numeral.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a reign of eighty years.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # [[m|en|eighty|alt=Eighty]]; 80.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[octōgēnī]]

+ * [[octōgēsimus]]

+ * [[octōgiēns]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[octo|alt=octō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}