octaples
English
Etymology
From French octaples, from Ancient Greek ὀκταπλά (oktaplá), neuter plural of ὀκταπλοῦς (oktaploûs, “eightfold”), from ὀκτα- (okta-, “octa-: eight”) + -πλοος (-ploos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.
References
- “† octaples, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.
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