eightfold

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English

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

Etymology

From Middle English , from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight +‎ -fold.

Adjective

eightfold (not comparable)

  1. Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.
  2. Containing eight parts.
    • 2003, Richard Morris, The Last Sorcerers, page 213,
      The scheme, which Gell-Mann called the eightfold way, grouped mesons and baryons into families.

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Adverb

eightfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of eight.

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