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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin octogenārius.
Pronunciation
Noun
octogénaire m or f by sense (plural octogénaires)
- octogenarian
1992, Amélie Nothomb, translated by Alison Anderson, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:Quand il fut de notoriété publique que l’immense écrivain Prétextat Tach mourrait dans les deux mois, des journalistes du monde entier sollicitèrent des entretiens privés avec l’octogénaire.- When the imminent demise of the great writer Pretextat Tach became public knowledge—he was given two months to live—journalists the world over requested private interviews with the eighty-year-old gentleman.
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