The corpus record — Latin

octogenarius

octogenarius · adj

containing eighty

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Where it lives

Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

octōgēnārĭus — Lewis & Short

octōgēnārĭus, a, um, adj.octogeni,

I containing eighty (post-Aug.): exheredata ab octogenario patre, who was a man of eighty, was eighty years old, Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 2; Vulg. 2 Reg. 19, 35: fistula, eighty inches broad, Vitr. 8, 7.—

II Subst.: octōgē-nārĭus, ĭi, m., a commander of eighty soldiers, Inscr. Orell. 3628.

In the wild

octogenario Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.33.2
octogenarius Historia Augusta, Gordiani Tres 9
octogenariae Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.6.4
octogenaria Tertullian, De Anima 56

Where it came from

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