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Translingual

Etymology

From English eight

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?eit]

Numeral

eight

1. Code word for the digit 8 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word oktoeight

References

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *aht?, from Proto-Germanic *aht?u, from Proto-Indo-European *o?t?w.

Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ???? (okt?), Irish ocht (“eight”).

Alternative forms

• aught (Scotland, archaic, rare)
• Western (Arabic) numerals: 8
• Roman numerals: VIII

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ?t, IPA^(key): /e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophones: ait, ate, eyot

Numeral

eight

1. A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
   • 2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”

     Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.

2. Describing a group or set with eight elements.

   He works eight hours a day.

Related terms

• eighth

Translations

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

eight (plural eights)

1. The digit/figure 8.
2. (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
3. (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
4. (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
5. (rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• section 8

Adjective

eight (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of eighth

Etymology 2

See ait.

Noun

eight (plural eights)

1. Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)

References

Anagrams

• Tighe

Middle English

Numeral

eight

1. Alternative form of eighte

Yola

Etymology

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Verb

eight

1. to eat

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)

English

Etymology

From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-Germanic *diht?n? (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey?-, *d?ey??- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dict?re; or perhaps from Latin dict?re (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /da?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [d??t]
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue:

     Ne telleth nevere no man in youre lyf

     How that another man hath dight his wyf;

3. (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
4. (obsolete, transitive) To compose, make.
   • 14^thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood:

     Japhet's Wife: And I will gather chippes here / To make a fyer for you in feare, / And for to dighte your dinnere / Agayne you come in.

5. (archaic, transitive, of facial features) To be formed or composed (of).
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     […] nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.

6. (archaic, transitive) To furnish, equip.
7. (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
8. (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): bed, feague, lie with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to furnish): apparel, fit out, kit out
• (to dress, array, adorn): clothe, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• dighter
• adight
• bedight
• benedight
• misdight
• maledight
• overdight

Adjective

dight

1. (obsolete) Disposed; adorned.

Adverb

dight

1. (obsolete) Finely.

   Synonym: dightly

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Etymology

From Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, from Proto-Germanic *diht?n?.

Verb

dight

1. adorned, dressed

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN