sesquioctavus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sesquĭ-octāvus, a, um, num. adj., corresp. to the Gr. ἐπόγδοος,

containing nine eighths , or one and an eighth; bearing the ratio of nine to eight : intervallum, Cic. Univ. 7, 21; cf. sesquitertius, and v. sesqui.

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