eight

English Online Dictionary. What means eight‎? What does eight mean?

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Eight, EIGHT

Etymology

Borrowed from English eight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈei̯t]

Noun

eight

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 8.

   Synonym: oktoeight (ITU/IMO)

References

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).

Alternative forms

• aught (Scotland, archaic, rare)
• Arabic numerals: 8
• Roman numerals: VIII

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: āt, IPA^(key): /eɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Homophones: ait (general), ate, eyot (one pronunciation)

Numeral

eight

1. A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
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2. Describing a group or set with eight elements.

Related terms

• eighth

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: aiti

Translations

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

eight (plural eights)

1. The digit/figure 8.
2. (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
3. (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
4. (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
5. (rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
6. Eight o'clock.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• section 8

Adjective

eight (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of eighth.

Etymology 2

See ait.

Noun

eight (plural eights)

1. Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)

References

Anagrams

• Tighe

Middle English

Numeral

eight

1. Alternative form of eighte

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Etymology

Spelling was influenced by English eight (/eɪt/).

Verb

eight

1. Alternative spelling of at (“to eat”)

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38