eighth

English

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Cardinal: eight     Ordinal: eighth     Latinate ordinal: octonary     Adverbial: eight times     Multiplier: eightfold     Latinate multiplier: octuple     Distributive: octuply     Group collective: eightsome     Multipart collective: octuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: octad     Greek collective prefix: octo-, octa-     Latinate collective prefix: octo-     Fractional: eighth     Latinate fractional prefix: octant-     Elemental: octuplet     Greek prefix: ogdo-     Number of musicians: octet     Number of years: octennium

Alternative forms

• eight (obsolete)
• eightth (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ātth, IPA^(key): /eɪtθ/
• (General American) enPR: ātth, āth, IPA^(key): /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtθ, -eɪθ

Adjective

eighth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number eight.

Synonyms

• 8th, 8^th, VIIIth; (in names of monarchs and popes) VIII

Derived terms

• Admiral's eighth
• eighth cranial nerve
• eighth final
• eighth grade
• eighth grader
• eighth man
• eighth-man
• eighth nerve
• eighth note
• eighth rest
• five eighth
• one eighth
• second five-eighth

 

Translations

ordinal form of the number eight — see also 8th

• Afrikaans: agste, agtste (af)
• Albanian: tetë (sq)
• Arabic: ثَامِن m (ṯāmin), ثَامِنَة f (ṯāmina)

  Egyptian Arabic: تامن (tāmin)

  Hijazi Arabic: ثامِن m (ṯāmin, tāmin)

• Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʻerord)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܡܝܼܢܵܝܵܐ m (tmīnāyā), ܬܡܝܼܢܵܝܬܵܐ f (tmīnāytā)
• Asturian: octavu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: səkkizinci
• Bashkir: һигеҙенсе (higeźense)
• Basque: zortzigarren (eu)
• Belarusian: во́сьмы (be) (vósʹmy)
• Bengali: অষ্টম (bn) (ośṭom)
• Breton: eizhvet (br)
• Bulgarian: о́сми (ósmi)
• Burmese: အဋ္ဌမ (my) (athta.ma.)
• Buryat: наймадахи (najmadaxi)
• Carpathian Rusyn: во́смый (vósmŷj)
• Catalan: vuitè (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第八 (zh) (dìbā)

• Crimean Tatar: sekizinci
• Czech: osmý (cs)
• Danish: ottende (da)
• Dutch: achtste (nl)
• Esperanto: oka (eo)
• Estonian: kaheksas (et)
• Evenki: дяпкӣ (ʒapkī)
• Faroese: áttandi
• Finnish: kahdeksas (fi)
• French: huitième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) huit (after the name) (abbreviation VIII)

  Old French: huictiesme

• Gagauz: sekizinci
• Georgian: მერვე (merve)
• German: achte (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌿𐌳𐌰 (ahtuda)
• Greek: όγδοος (el) (ógdoos)

  Ancient: ὄγδοος (ógdoos)

• Hawaiian: walu
• Hebrew: שמיני (shmini)
• Hindi: आठवां (āṭhvā̃)
• Hungarian: nyolcadik (hu)
• Icelandic: áttundi
• Ido: okesma (io)
• Indonesian: kedelapan (id)
• Ingrian: kaheksas
• Interlingua: octave
• Irish: ochtú
• Italian: ottavo (it); (in names of monarchs and popes) ottavo m, ottava f (after the name) (abbreviation VIII)
• Japanese: 八番目 (はちばんめ, hachiban-me)
• Kalmyk: нәәмдгч (näämdgç)
• Kazakh: сегізінші (kk) (segızınşı)
• Khakas: сигізінӌі (sigìzìncì)
• Khmer: ទីប្រាំបី (tii pram bəi)
• Korean: 여덟째 (ko) (yeodeoljjae)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەشتەم (heştem)

• Kyrgyz: сегизинчи (ky) (segizinci)
• Lao: ທີ່ແປດ (thī pǣt)
• Latgalian: ostoni
• Latin: octavus (la)
• Latvian: astotais (lv)
• Lithuanian: aštuntas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Aachtel (lb)
• Macedonian: осми (osmi)
• Malay: kelapan (ms)
• Malayalam: എട്ടാം (ml) (eṭṭāṁ), എട്ടാമത്തെ (eṭṭāmatte)
• Maltese: it-tmien
• Manchu: [script needed] (jakūci)
• Manx: hoghtoo
• Maori: tuawaru, te waru
• Mongolian: наймдугаар (najmdugaar), наймдахь (najmdaxʹ)
• Navajo: tseebíí góneʼ
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: aachst

  Helgoland: achs

• Northern Sami: gávccát
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: åttende (no)

  Nynorsk: åttande

• Old Church Slavonic: осмъ (osmŭ)
• Old Prussian: asmus
• Pali: aṭṭhama
• Persian: هشتم (fa) (haštom)
• Polish: ósmy (pl)
• Portuguese: oitavo (pt)
• Romanian: optulea (ro)
• Russian: восьмо́й (ru) (vosʹmój)
• Sanskrit: अष्टम (sa) (aṣṭama)
• Scots: aicht
• Scottish Gaelic: ochdamh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осми

  Roman: osmi (sh)

• Shor: сегизинчи
• Sinhalese: අටවැනි (aṭawæni)
• Slovak: ôsmy (sk)
• Slovene: osmi (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wósymy

  Upper Sorbian: wosmy

• Southern Altai: сегизинчи (segizinči)
• Spanish: octavo (es)
• Swedish: åttonde (sv)
• Tagalog: ikawalo
• Tajik: ҳаштум (tg) (haštum)
• Tatar: сигезенче (sigezençe)
• Thai: ที่แปด (tîi-bpɛ̀ɛt)
• Tocharian B: oktante
• Turkish: sekizinci (tr)
• Turkmen: sekizinji
• Ukrainian: во́сьмий (uk) (vósʹmyj)
• Urdu: آٹھواں (ur) (āṭhvā̃)
• Uzbek: sakkizinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ tám
• Volapük: jölid (vo)
• Welsh: wythfed (cy)
• West Frisian: achtste
• Yakut: ахсыс (aqsıs)
• Yiddish: אַכט (akht)

Noun

eighth (plural eighths)

1. The person or thing in the eighth position.
2. One of eight equal parts of a whole.
3. (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 499:

     At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane.

Synonyms

• (person or thing in the eighth position): eighth one
• (One of eight equal parts): ⅛, half-quarter, henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)
• (⅛ oz.): ochava (historical Spanish contexts)

Coordinate terms

• (One of eight equal parts): epogdoon (a number greater by a ratio of nine to eight; 1+¹⁄₈)

Translations

person or thing in the eighth position

• Afrikaans: agtste (af)
• Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʻerord)
• Basque: zortzigarren (eu)
• Dutch: achtste (nl)
• Estonian: kaheksas (et)
• Finnish: kahdeksas (fi)
• French: huitième (fr) m or f

  Old French: huictiesme

• Galician: oitava f, oitavo (gl) m
• German: Achte (de)
• Greek: όγδοος (el) m (ógdoos)
• Hungarian: nyolcadik (hu)
• Interlingua: octavo m, octava f
• Italian: ottavo (it) m, ottava (it) f
• Latgalian: ostoits m, ostoita f
• Latin: octavus (la)
• Latvian: astotais (lv) m, astotā f
• Lithuanian: aštuntas (lt) m, aštunta f
• Maori: tuawaru
• Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m, oitava (pt) f
• Romanian: cel al optulea m, cea a opta f
• Russian: восьмой (ru) (vosʹmoj), восьмая (ru) f (vosʹmaja), восьмое n (vosʹmoje)
• Swedish: (den) åttonde (sv) c, åtta (sv) c
• Turkish: sekizinci (tr)

one of eight equal parts of a whole

• Arabic: ثُمْن m (ṯumn)
• Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʻerord)
• Aromanian: uptimi f
• Dutch: achtste (nl) n
• Esperanto: okono
• Estonian: kaheksandik
• Finnish: kahdeksasosa (fi), kahdeksannes (fi)
• French: huitième (fr) m

  Old French: huictiesme

• Galician: oitavo (gl) m
• Georgian: მერვედი (mervedi)
• German: Achtel (de) n
• Greek: όγδοος (el) m (ógdoos)
• Hawaiian: hapawalu
• Hebrew: שמינית (he) f (shminít)
• Hungarian: nyolcad (hu)
• Ido: okima (io)
• Interlingua: octavo
• Italian: ottavo (it) m
• Latgalian: astotdaļa f
• Latin: octans m, octavum (la) n
• Lithuanian: aštuntadalis m
• Macedonian: осмина f (osmina)
• Maori: hauwaru
• Plautdietsch: Achtel (nds) n
• Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m
• Romanian: optime (ro) f
• Russian: (одна) восьмая (часть) ((odna) vosʹmaja (častʹ))
• Spanish: octavo (es) m
• Swedish: åttondel (sv) c, åttondedel (sv) c
• Turkish: sekizde bir
• Ukrainian: одна восьма f (odna vosʹma)
• Yiddish: אַכטל n (akhtl)

slang: a quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce

Verb

eighth (third-person singular simple present eighths, present participle eighthing, simple past and past participle eighthed)

1. to divide by eight
   • 2013, Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking‎^[1], page 31:

     The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.

See also

• octave

Anagrams

• Height, Highet, height, highte