Etymology

octomino

O1C3T1O1M3I1N1O1

Today it means: A polyomino consisting of eight squares. Full definition →

English octo- ← Latin octō ← Proto-Italic *oktō
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw
  2. Proto-Hellenic*oktṓ
  3. Ancient Greekὀκτώ (oktṓ)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw
  5. Proto-Italic*oktō
  6. Latinoctō
  7. Englishocto-
  8. English todayoctomino

From octo- + -omino.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.