The story
- Latin · derived fromoctōnārius“containing eight”
- English todayoctonary
From the Latin octōnārius (“containing eight”), from octōnī (“eight at a time”, “by eights”, “eight each”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary). Doublet of octonarius.
Words from the same roots
Latinoctōnārius all →
octonarius
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.