octuor
English
Noun
octuor (plural octuors)
- (music, archaic) An octet.
French
Etymology
A blend of Latin octo ‘eight’ and a fictitious suffix -tuor, by analogy with Fr. quatuor ‘quartet’ — itself from Lat. quattuor ‘four’.
Pronunciation
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Noun
octuor m (plural octuors)
- (chiefly music) octet
Further reading
- “octuor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.