octōni
Meaning
- Eight each
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.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
octōnī ae, a, num distr.
octo, eight each, eight at a time, by eights: ordines ducti, Cs.: octona milia peditum, L.: octonis referentes Idibus aera, on the Ides of eight months, H.: octonis iterum natalibus actis, eight, O.