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Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin octāva (octāvus).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔkˈta.va/
- Rhymes: -ava
- Syllabification: ok‧ta‧wa
Noun
oktawa f
- period of eight days
- eighth day of such a period
- (music) octave (interval of eight notes)
- (poetry) octave (poetic stanza consisting of eight lines)
- (library science) octal book format
- (historical) culverin variant between the 15th and 17th centuries
Declension
References
Further reading
- oktawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- oktawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN