oktawa

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See also: oktawą

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin octāva (octāvus).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔkˈta.va/
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  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: ok‧ta‧wa

Noun

oktawa f

  1. period of eight days
    1. eighth day of such a period
  2. (music) octave (interval of eight notes)
  3. (poetry) octave (poetic stanza consisting of eight lines)
  4. (library science) octal book format
  5. (historical) culverin variant between the 15th and 17th centuries

Declension

Declension of oktawa
singular plural
nominative oktawa oktawy
genitive oktawy oktaw
dative oktawie oktawom
accusative oktawę oktawy
instrumental oktawą oktawami
locative oktawie oktawach
vocative oktawo oktawy

References

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “oktawa”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN

Further reading

  • oktawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • oktawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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