eightlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Shaped like a figure eight.
Example Sentences
- "...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape of the crumpled wheel and the figure eight more generally."
- "For example, some scholars thought that an eightlike figure on the robe of the Virgin signified that the image was the eighth wonder of the world."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Old English eahta Middle English eighte English eight Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English eightlike From eight + -like.
Inflected Forms
more eightlike (comparative)
most eightlike (superlative)
Synonyms
octiform