ochenta

From Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”); cf. Spanish ochenta.

ochenta (indeclinable)

1. eighty; 80

• ocho

• očenta (Yugoslavia)

Inherited from Old Spanish ochaenta (“fourscore”), from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”).

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ochenta (Hebrew spelling אוג׳ינטה)^[1]

1. eighty (80)
   • 2006, Matilda Koén‐Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[1], page 114:

     Mi profesor de latino i grego ya tinía mas ochenta anyos kuando fue mi profesor en mis últimos anyos de liseo.

     My Latin and Greek teacher was already more [than] eighty-years-old when he was my teacher in my last years of high school.

ochenta

1. alternative form of ochaenta

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “ochenta”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 364

From Spanish ochenta and Portuguese oitenta and Kabuverdianu oitenta.

ochenta

1. eighty (80)

Inherited from Old Spanish ochaenta, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”).

• IPA^(key): /oˈt͡ʃenta/ [oˈt͡ʃẽn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: o‧chen‧ta

ochenta

1. eighty

• → Cebuano: otsenta

• “ochenta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024