eighth

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Cardinal: eight     Ordinal: eighth     Abbreviated ordinal: 8th     Latinate ordinal: octonary     Adverbial: eight times     Multiplier: eightfold     Latinate multiplier: octuple     Distributive: octuply     Germanic collective: eightsome     Collective of n parts: octuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: octad     Greek collective prefix: octo-, octa-     Latinate collective prefix: octo-     Fractional: eighth     Elemental: octuplet     Greek prefix: ogdo-     Number of musicians: octet     Number of years: octennium

Alternative forms

• eight (obsolete)
• eightth (nonstandard)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight +‎ -th (ordinal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ātth, IPA^(key): /eɪtθ/
• (General American) enPR: ātth, āth, IPA^(key): /eɪtθ/, /eɪθ/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtθ, -eɪθ

Adjective

eighth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number eight.
   • 2025 February 25, Reuters, “South Korea’s birth rate rose for the first time in 9 years. Is the world’s lowest fertility rate on the rebound?”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 6 July 2025:

     In 2023, the birthrate fell for the eighth consecutive year to 0.72, the lowest in the world, from 1.24 in 2015, raising concerns over the economic shock to society from such a rapid pace.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• Admiral's eighth
• eighth cranial nerve
• eighth final
• eighth grade
• eighth grader
• eighthly
• eighthman
• eighth man
• eighth-man
• eighth nerve
• eighth note
• eighth pole
• eighth rest
• eighth wonder of the world
• five eighth
• one eighth
• second five-eighth

Translations

ordinal form of the number eight — see also 8th

Afrikaans: agste, agtste (af) Albanian: tetë (sq) Arabic: ثَامِن m (ṯāmin), ثَامِنَة f (ṯāmina) Egyptian Arabic: تامن (tāmin) Hijazi Arabic: ثامِن m (ṯāmin, tāmin) Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʻerord) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܡܝܼܢܵܝܵܐ m (tmīnāyā), ܬܡܝܼܢܵܝܬܵܐ f (tmīnāytā) Asturian: octavu (ast) m Azerbaijani: səkkizinci Bashkir: һигеҙенсе (higeźense) Basque: zortzigarren (eu) Belarusian: во́сьмы (be) (vósʹmy) Bengali: অষ্টম (bn) (ośṭom) Breton: eizhvet (br) Bulgarian: о́сми (ósmi) Burmese: အဋ္ဌမ (my) (athta.ma.) Buryat: наймадахи (najmadaxi) Carpathian Rusyn: во́смый (vósmŷj) Catalan: vuitè (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 第八 (zh) (dìbā) Crimean Tatar: sekizinci Czech: osmý (cs) Danish: ottende (da) Dutch: achtste (nl) Esperanto: oka (eo) Estonian: kaheksas (et) Evenki: дяпкӣ (ʒapkī) Faroese: áttandi Finnish: kahdeksas (fi) French: huitième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) huit (after the name) (abbreviation VIII) Old French: huictiesme Gagauz: sekizinci Georgian: მერვე (merve) German: achte (de) Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌿𐌳𐌰 (ahtuda) Greek: όγδοος (el) (ógdoos) Ancient: ὄγδοος (ógdoos) Hawaiian: walu Hebrew: שמיני (shmini) Hindi: आठवां (āṭhvā̃) Hungarian: nyolcadik (hu) Icelandic: áttundi Ido: okesma (io) Indonesian: kedelapan (id) Ingrian: kaheksas Interlingua: octave Irish: ochtú Italian: ottavo (it); (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 (kk) (segızınşı) Khakas: сигізінӌі (sigìzìncì) Khmer: ទីប្រាំបី (tii pram bəi) Korean: 여덟째 (ko) (yeodeoljjae) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھەشتەم (heştem) Kyrgyz: сегизинчи (ky) (segizinci) Lao: ທີ່ແປດ (thī pǣt) Latgalian: ostoni Latin: octavus (la) Latvian: astotais (lv) Lithuanian: aštuntas (lt) Luxembourgish: Aachtel (lb) Macedonian: осми (osmi) Malay: kelapan (ms) Malayalam: എട്ടാം (ml) (eṭṭāṁ), എട്ടാമത്തെ (eṭṭāmatte) Maltese: it-tmien Manchu: [script needed] (jakūci) Manx: hoghtoo Maori: tuawaru, te waru Mongolian: наймдугаар (najmdugaar), наймдахь (najmdaxʹ) Navajo: tseebíí góneʼ North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: aachst Helgoland: achs Northern Sami: gávccát Norwegian: Bokmål: åttende (no) Nynorsk: åttande Old Church Slavonic: осмъ (osmŭ) Old Prussian: asmus Pali: aṭṭhama Persian: هشتم (fa) (haštom) Polish: ósmy (pl) Portuguese: oitavo (pt) Romanian: optulea (ro) Russian: восьмо́й (ru) (vosʹmój) Sanskrit: अष्टम (sa) (aṣṭama) Scots: echt Scottish Gaelic: ochdamh Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: осми Roman: osmi (sh) Shor: сегизинчи Sinhalese: අටවැනි (aṭawæni) Slovak: ôsmy (sk) Slovene: osmi (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: wósymy Upper Sorbian: wosmy Southern Altai: сегизинчи (segizinči) Spanish: octavo (es) Swedish: åttonde (sv) Tagalog: ikawalo Tajik: ҳаштум (tg) (haštum) Tatar: сигезенче (sigezençe) Thai: ที่แปด (tîi-bpɛ̀ɛt) Tocharian B: oktante Turkish: sekizinci (tr) Turkmen: sekizinji Ukrainian: во́сьмий (uk) (vósʹmyj) Urdu: آٹھواں (ur) (āṭhvā̃) Uzbek: sakkizinchi (uz) Vietnamese: thứ tám Volapük: jölid (vo) Welsh: wythfed (cy) West Frisian: achtste Yakut: ахсыс (aqsıs) 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.

   Two bits equals two eighths of a dollar.

3. (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 499:

     At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane.

4. An interval by doubling in pitch frequency.

Synonyms

• (person or thing in the eighth position): eighth one
• (One of eight equal parts): ⅛, half-quarter, henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)
• (⅛ oz.): ochava (historical Spanish contexts)
• (twice the frequency): octave

Coordinate terms

• (One of eight equal parts): epogdoon (a number greater by a ratio of nine to eight; 1+¹⁄₈)

Translations

person or thing in the eighth position

Afrikaans: agtste (af) Armenian: ութերորդ (hy) (utʻerord) Basque: zortzigarren (eu) Dutch: achtste (nl) Estonian: kaheksas (et) Finnish: kahdeksas (fi) French: huitième (fr) m or f Old French: huictiesme Galician: oitava f, oitavo (gl) m German: Achte (de) Greek: όγδοος (el) m (ógdoos) Hungarian: nyolcadik (hu) Interlingua: octavo m, octava f Italian: ottavo (it) m, ottava (it) f Latgalian: ostoits m, ostoita f Latin: octavus (la) Latvian: astotais (lv) m, astotā f Lithuanian: aštuntas (lt) m, aštunta f Maori: tuawaru Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m, oitava (pt) f Romanian: al optulea (ro) m, a opta (ro) f Russian: восьмой (ru) (vosʹmoj), восьмая (ru) f (vosʹmaja), восьмое n (vosʹmoje) 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) (utʻerord) Aromanian: uptimi f Bulgarian: осма (bg) f (osma) Dutch: achtste (nl) n Esperanto: okono Estonian: kaheksandik Finnish: kahdeksasosa (fi), kahdeksannes (fi) 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) Hungarian: nyolcad (hu) Ido: okima (io) Interlingua: octavo Italian: ottavo (it) m Latgalian: astotdaļa f Latin: octans m, octavum (la) n Lithuanian: aštuntadalis m Macedonian: осмина f (osmina) Maori: hauwaru Plautdietsch: Achtel (nds) n Portuguese: oitavo (pt) m Romanian: optime (ro) f Russian: (одна) восьмая (часть) ((odna) vosʹmaja (častʹ)) Spanish: octavo (es) m Swedish: åttondel (sv) c, åttondedel (sv) c Turkish: sekizde bir Ukrainian: одна восьма f (odna vosʹma) 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. (transitive) 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.

Translations

divide by eight

German: achteln (de)

See also

• octave

Anagrams

• Height, Highet, height, highte