Etymograph

English

octic

Octic comes from Latin octo ‘eight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*oḱtṓw1‘eight’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oktō2‘eight’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEocto3‘eight’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1999octic3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *oktō
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin octo, which cites Hofmann
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English octic
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1999, William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All: “Unfortunately, an analogous attack on the octic polynomial becomes…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*oḱtṓwWiktionary, Proto-Italic *oktō‘eight’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oktōWiktionary, Latin octo, which cites Hofmann‘eight’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEoctoWiktionary, English octic‘eight’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1999octicWiktionary, English octic. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1999, William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All: “Unfortunately, an analogous attack on the octic polynomial becomes…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw ‘eight’

eight, octave, aught, octavo, 17 more

Today it means

adj Of the eighth degree or order.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “octic”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Italic *oktō, Latin octo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw / octic

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