octolingual
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Characterized by the use or presence of eight languages.
Example Sentences
- "In 1539 Estienne reversed his Dictionarium, a direct descendant of his own Latin Thesaurus, into the Dictionnaire that was the ancestor of Nicot’s French Thresor. He did this because when popular demand required a reprinting of the octolingual Calepin, Estienne found this work unacceptable and a willing revisor unavailable."
- "Makkai is the author of Cantio Nocturna Peregrini Aviumque [Nightsong of the Wanderer and the Birds], an octolingual book of poetry honoring Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 250 anniversary in 1999."
- "Also due for mention is Berlaymont’s octolingual dictionary, among them also Dutch, the Colloquia et dictionariolum octo linguarum; Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae et Portugallicae."
- "Contains an eight-language dictionary, fols. O8ᵛ - T3ʳ. The preface is dated 1585. NUC (NC 0554212) lists an octolingual edition of Venetiis 164-? (copy in Boulder UCL)."
- "Two years later, in 1639, an octolingual edition was issued by ‘Michael Sparke junior’ under the title New Dialogues or Colloquies, and, A little Dictionary of eight Languages. Latine, French, Low-Dutch [i.e. Flemish], High-Dutch [i.e. German], Spanish, Italian, English, Portugall."
- "From 1565 onward Junius’ works were published with Christopher Plantin: his religious poem on the Passion (Anastaurosis), his edition of Nonius Marcellus and his Emblemata et Aenigmata (all in 1565), his frequently reprinted and adapted octolingual dictionary Nomenclator (1567), his editions of Eunapius and Martial (both 1568), and his edition of Hesychius (1572)."