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sesquioctavus

sesquioctavus · num. adj

containing nine eighths

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Where it lives

Timaeus 2 · 4.74/10k

What it meant

sesquĭ-octāvus — Lewis & Short

sesquĭ-octāvus, a, um, num. adj., corresp. to the Gr. e)po/gdoos,

I containing nine eighths, or one and an eighth; bearing the ratio of nine to eight: intervallum, Cic. Univ. 7, 21; cf. sesquitertius, and v. sesqui.

In the wild

sesquioctavis Cicero, Timaeus 23
sesquioctavo Cicero, Timaeus 23

Where it came from

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