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octoni

octoni

Eight each

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

octōni — Lewis & Short

octōni, ae, a,

I num. distr. adj. [octo].
I Eight each, eight at a time, by eights: cum alii octonos lapides ecfodiunt, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 66: partes, Varr. L. L. 9, § 30 Müll.: hujus generis octoni ordines ducti, Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 8: imperat Bellovacis decem, octona Pictonibus, id. ib. 7, 75, 3: octona milia peditum praetoribus data, Liv. 32, 28.—
II In gen., eight: octonis iterum natalibus actis, Ov. M. 13, 753: anni, id. ib. 5, 50.— Sing.: octonus (late Lat.) numerus, the number eight, Hil. prol. in Psa. 14.

In the wild

6 of 62 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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