octava
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɡˈtaba/, [oɣ̞ˈt̪a.β̞a]
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin octāvus (“one-eighth”). Doublet of octau. Cognate with Spanish ochava and Galician and Portuguese oitava.
Pronunciation
Noun
octava f (plural octaves)
- (music) octave, the interval of 12 semitones or 8 degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving of a given pitch
- (music) octave, the pitch at twice the frequency of a given pitch, a pitch raised one octave
- (Christianity) octave, the day one week after a feast day, the eighth day counting inclusively in the Roman method
- (Christianity) octave, the week beginning on a feast day, eight days counting inclusively in the Roman method
- Synonym: vuitada
- (prosody) octet, a stanza with eight lines
- (historical) ochava, a traditional unit of mass equal to ⅛ of the Spanish ounce
Latin
Pronunciation 1
- (Classical) IPA(key): /okˈtaː.u̯a/, [ɔkˈt̪äːu̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /okˈta.va/, [okˈt̪äːvä]
Numeral
octāva
- inflection of octāvus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Pronunciation 2
- (Classical) IPA(key): /okˈtaː.u̯aː/, [ɔkˈt̪äːu̯äː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /okˈta.va/, [okˈt̪äːvä]
References
- octava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɡˈtaba/ [oɣ̞ˈt̪a.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -aba
- Syllabification: oc‧ta‧va
Related terms
Further reading
- “octavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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