octans

See also: Octans

English

Noun

octans

1. plural of octan

Anagrams

• Caston, cast-on, Stanco, cast on, Cantos, acts on, actons, NatSoc, cantos, Actons

Catalan

Noun

octans

1. plural of octà

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

←  7	VIII 8	9  →
Cardinal: octō     Ordinal: octāvus     Adverbial: octiēs, octiēns     Proportional: octuplus, octōplus     Multiplier: octuplex, octiplex     Distributive: octōnus     Fractional: octāns, sēscūncia, sēsquūnx, sēscūnx

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔk.tãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔk.tans]

Noun

octāns m (genitive octantis); third declension

1. A measuring instrument, possibly similar to the nautical octant
2. half a quadrant, an eighth part.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	octāns	octantēs
genitive	octantis	octantium
dative	octantī	octantibus
accusative	octantem	octantēs octantīs
ablative	octante	octantibus
vocative	octāns	octantēs

Related terms

• octangulus
• Octānus

Descendants

• Italian: ottante

References

• “octans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “octans”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.