The story
- Latin · derived fromoctāvus“one-eighth”
- Spanish · borrowed fromochava“⅛ Spanish ounce”
- English todayochava
From Spanish ochava (“⅛ Spanish ounce”), from Latin octāvus (“one-eighth”). Doublet of octave, octavo, and oitava.
Words from the same roots
Latinoctāvus all →
octaveoitava
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.