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octa-
before vowels
oct-
, word-forming element meaning "eight," from Greek
okta-
,
okt-
, from PIE
*okto(u)
"eight" (see
eight
). The variant form
octo-
often appears in words taken from Latin, but the Greek form is said to be the more common in English.