The corpus record — Latin

octavus

octavus · adj

the eighth

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 4 · 14.61/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 2 · 9.79/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 8 · 8.39/10k
Opilius Macrinus 2 · 8.03/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Octavius 7 · 6.04/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 3 · 5.45/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 6 · 4.74/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 5 · 3.8/10k

Densest 12 of 77 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

octāvus — Lewis & Short

octāvus, a, um, adj.octo,

I the eighth: octava pars, Cic. Att. 15, 26, 4: legio, Caes. B. G. 2, 23: marmor, the eighth mile-stone, Mart. 9, 65, 4.—

II Subst.: octāva, ae, f.

A (Sc. hora.) The eighth hour of the day, Mart. 4, 8, 5; Juv. 1, 49.—

B (Sc. pars.) The eighth part, as a tax, Cod. Just. 4, 65, 7; Cod. Th. 4, 12, 6; Ulp. Fragm. 6, 12 (cf. octavarius).—

III Adv.: octāvum, for the eighth time, Liv. 6, 36, 7.

In the wild

octavo Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.pr.18
octava Tacitus, Historiae 3.27
octavo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.5
Octavius Cicero, Letters to and from Brutus 1.16.7
Octavius Tacitus, Annales 1.p9
octavum Tacitus, Historiae 3.15

6 of 267 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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