eight

CEFRA1

/eɪt/

number · numeral · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    number

    The number one more than seven.

  2. 02

    number

    Extra detail

    Describing a group or set with eight elements.

Examples

  • Our school begins at eight in the morning.

  • The race ended with eight laps of a city centre circuit.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
3
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /eʈ/
  • /ɛ(j)ʈ/

Deep Dive

number

Extra meaning

  1. The digit/figure 8.

numeral

Extra meaning

  1. A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.

More examples

In context

  • Our school begins at eight.

  • He works eight hours a day.

  • The statement did not specify the location of that trip, but provided further details of her romantic life, stating that Saroukos and her husband spent eight days together before she returned to Australia on Dec. 21.

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Origin

number

PIE word *oḱtṓw Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Old English eahta Middle English eighte English eight 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”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ).