octaples

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1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὀκταπλά
2. French · derived fromoctaples
3. English todayoctaples

From French octaples, from Ancient Greek ὀκταπλά (oktaplá), neuter plural of ὀκταπλοῦς (oktaploûs, “eightfold”), from ὀκτα- (okta-, “octa-: eight”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.

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