eighth

English

Etymology

From Стари Енглески eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: ātth, IPA^(кључ): /eɪtθ/
• (GenAm) enPR: ātth, āth, IPA^(кључ): /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtθ, -eɪθ

Adjective

eighth

1. The ordinal form of the number eight.

Synonyms

• 8th, 8^th; (in names of monarchs and popes) VIII

Translations

ordinal form of the number eight

• Afrikaans: agste, agtste (af)
• Albanian: tetë (sq)
• Arabic: ثَامِن‎‎ m (ṯāmin), ثَامِنَة‎‎ f (ṯāmina)
• Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʿerord)
• Asturian: octavu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: səkkizinci
• Bashkir: һигеҙенсе (higeðense)
• Basque: zortzigarren (eu)
• Belarusian: восьмы m (vós’my)
• Bengali: অষ্টম (ôshţôm)
• Breton: eizhvet (br)
• Bulgarian: осми m (ósmi)
• Burmese: အဌမ (a.hta.ma.)
• Buryat: наймадахи (najmadaxi)
• Catalan: vuitè (ca) (abbreviation 8è)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第八 (zh) (dìbā)

• Crimean Tatar: sekizinci
• Czech: osmý (cs) m (abbreviation 8.)
• Danish: ottende (da) (abbreviation 8.)
• Dutch: achtste (nl) (abbreviations 8ste, 8e)
• Esperanto: oka (eo)
• Estonian: katsas
• Faroese: áttandi m, áttanda f, n
• Finnish: kahdeksas (fi) (abbreviation 8.)
• French: huitième (fr) (before the noun) (abbreviation 8^e); (in names of monarchs and popes) huit (after the name) (abbreviation VIII)

  Old French: huictiesme

• Gagauz: sekizinci
• Georgian: მერვე (merve)
• German: achte (de) (abbreviation 8.)
• Greek: όγδοος (el) m (ógdoos)

  Ancient Greek: ὄγδοος (ógdoos)

• Hawaiian: walu
• Hebrew: שמיני‎‎ (shmini)
• Hindi: आठवां (āṭhvā̃)
• Hungarian: nyolcadik (hu)
• Icelandic: áttundi
• Ido: okesma (io)
• Indonesian: kedelapan (id) (abbreviation ke-8)
• Interlingua: octave (abbreviation 8^e)
• Irish: ochtú (abbreviation 8ú)
• Italian: ottavo (it) m, ottava (it) f (before the noun) (abbreviations 8º m, 8ª f); (in names of monarchs and popes) ottavo m, ottava f (after the name) (abbreviation VIII)
• Japanese: 八番目 (はちばんめ, hachiban-me)
• Kalmyk: нәәмдгч (näämdgç)
• Kazakh: сегізінші (segizinşi)
• Khakas: сигізінӌі (sigízíncí)
• Khmer: ទីប្រាំបី (tii pram bəi)
• Korean: 여덟째 (ko) (yeodeoljjae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هه‌شته‌م‎‎ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сегизинчи (ky) (segizinçi)
• Lao: ທີ່ແປດ (thī pǣt)
• Latgalian: ostoni
• Latin: octavus (la)
• Latvian: astotais

• Lithuanian: aštuntas (lt) m, aštunta f
• Luxembourgish: Aachtel (lb)
• Macedonian: осми m (ósmi)
• Malay: kelapan (ms)
• Maltese: it-tmien
• Manchu: (jakūci)
• Manx: hoghtoo (abbreviation 8oo)
• Maori: tuawaru, te waru
• Mongolian: наймдугаар (najmdugaar), наймдахь (najmdahʹ)
• Navajo: tseebíí góneʼ
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: aachst

  Helgoland: achs

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: åttende (no)

  Nynorsk: åttande

• Old Church Slavonic: осмъ (osmŭ)
• Persian: هشتم‎‎ (fa) (haštom)
• Polish: ósmy (pl)
• Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m, oitava f (abbreviations 8º m, 8ª f)
• Romanian: al optulea m, a opta f
• Russian: восьмо́й (ru) (vosʹmój), 8-ой (8-oj)
• Rusyn: во́смый (vósmŷj)
• Sanskrit: अष्टमः (sa) (aṣṭamaḥ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ochdamh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осми m

  Roman: osmi (sh) m

• Shor: сегизинчи
• Sinhalese: අටවැනි (aṭavæni)
• Slovak: ôsmy (sk) m
• Slovene: osmi (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wósymy

  Upper Sorbian: wosmy

• Southern Altai: сегизинчи (segizinçi)
• Spanish: octavo (es) m, octava (es) f; (abbreviations) 8º m, 8ª f
• Swedish: åttonde (sv) (abbreviation 8:e)
• Tagalog: ikawalo
• Tajik: ҳаштум (tg) (haštum)
• Tatar: сигезенче (sigezençe)
• Thai: ที่แปด
• Turkish: sekizinci (tr) (abbreviations 8'inci, 8.)
• Turkmen: sekizinji
• Ukrainian: восьмий (uk) m (vós’myj)
• Urdu: آٹھواں‎‎ (ur) (āṭhvā̃)
• Uzbek: sakkizinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ tám
• Volapük: jölid (vo)
• Welsh: wythfed (cy) (abbreviation 8fed)
• West Frisian: achtste (abbreviation 8e)
• Yakut: ахсыс (axsıs)
• Yiddish: אַכט‎‎ (akht)

Noun

eighth (plural eighths)

1. The person or thing in the eighth position.
2. One of eight equal parts of a whole.
3. (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.

Synonyms

• (person or thing in the eighth position): eighth one
• (One of eight equal parts): ⅛, henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)

Coordinate terms

• (One of eight equal parts): epogoon (a number greater by a ratio of 1⅛)

Translations

person or thing in the eighth position

• Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʿerord)
• Basque: zortzigarren (eu)
• Dutch: achtste (nl)
• Finnish: kahdeksas (fi)
• French: huitième (fr) m, f

  Old French: huictiesme

• Galician: oitava f, oitavo (gl) m
• German: Achte (de)
• Greek: όγδοος (el) m (ógdoos)
• Interlingua: octavo m, octava f

• Italian: ottavo (it) m, ottava (it) f
• Latgalian: ostoits m, ostoita f
• Latin: octavus (la)
• Latvian: astotais m, astotā f
• Lithuanian: aštuntas (lt) m, aštunta f
• Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m, oitava (pt) f
• Romanian: cel al optulea m, cea a opta f
• Swedish: (den) åttonde (sv) c, åtta (sv) c
• Turkish: sekizinci (tr)

one of eight equal parts of a whole

• Arabic: ثُمْن‎‎ m (ṯumn)
• Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʿerord)
• Aromanian: uptimi f
• Dutch: achtste (nl) n
• Esperanto: okono
• Finnish: kahdeksasosa, kahdeksannes
• French: huitième (fr) m

  Old French: huictiesme

• Galician: oitavo (gl) m
• Georgian: მერვედი (mervedi)
• German: Achtel (de) n
• Greek: όγδοος (el) m (ógdoos)
• Hawaiian: hapawalu

• Hebrew: שמינית‎‎ (he) f (shminít)
• Ido: okima (io)
• Interlingua: octavo
• Italian: ottavo (it) m
• Latgalian: astotdaļa f
• Latin: octavum n
• Lithuanian: aštuntadalis m
• Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m
• Romanian: optime (ro) f
• Spanish: octavo (es) m
• Swedish: åttondel (sv) c, åttondedel (sv) c
• Yiddish: אַכטל‎‎ n (akhtl)

slang: a quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce

Verb

eighth (third-person singular simple present eighths, present participle eighthing, simple past and past participle eighthed)

1. to divide by eight
   • 2013 Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking page 31

     The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.

Anagrams

• Height, height, highte