FromMiddle Englisheiȝtthe, fromOld Englisheahtoþa, fromProto-Germanic*ahtudô.
eighth (notcomparable)
- Theordinal form of the numbereight.
ordinal form of the number eight
—see also8theighth (pluraleighths)
- The person or thing in the eighthposition.
- One of eight equal parts of a whole.
- (slang) An eighth of anounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, ofmarijuana or other drugs.
- (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)
- (One of eight equal parts):epogdoon(a number greater by a ratio of nine to eight; 1
+1⁄8)
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 orf
- 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)
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one of eight equal parts of a whole
slang: a quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce
eighth (third-person singular simple presenteighths,present participleeighthing,simple past and past participleeighthed)
- (transitive) Todivide by eight.
2013,Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking[1], page31:The first step is toeighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf.Eighthing a script is subjective.
