ὀκτώ

See also: οκτώ

Ancient Greek

**Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)**
	80
← 7	ηʹ 8	9 →
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

(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)

eight

Descendants

Byzantine Greek: ὀκτώ (oktṓ)
- Greek: οκτώ (októ), οχτώ (ochtó)
- Mariupol Greek: охто́ (oxtó), ухто́ (uxtó)
- → Romani: oxto
  - Kalo Finnish Romani: oȟta
  - 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- eight idem, page 263.