![]() ![]() The Chinese numeral, written 八 ( Mandarin: bā Cantonese: baat), is from Old Chinese *priāt-, ultimately from Sino-Tibetan b-r-gyat or b-g-ryat which also yielded Tibetan brgyat. The Semitic numeral is based on a root *θmn-, whence Akkadian smn-, Arabic ṯmn-, Hebrew šmn- etc. The adjective octuple (Latin octu-plus) may also be used as a noun, meaning "a set of eight items" the diminutive octuplet is mostly used to refer to eight siblings delivered in one birth. ![]() 8 ( eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.Įnglish eight, from Old English eahta, æhta, Proto-Germanic *ahto is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓ(w)-, and as such cognate with Greek ὀκτώ and Latin octo-, both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary.
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