octateuch
English
Etymology
From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin octateuchus, from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Byzantine Greek ὀκτάτευχος [βίβλος] (oktáteukhos [bíblos], “[a volume] containing [the first] eight books [of the Old Testament]”), from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὀκτα- (okta-, “eight”, combining variant of ὀκτώ) + τεῦχος (teûkhos, “book”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
octateuch (plural octateuches)
- A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “octateuch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)