Meanings
comparative more eightlike · superlative most eightlike
- rareShaped like a figure eight.
...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape of the crumpled wheel and the figure eight more generally.
1965, August Aichhorn, Otto Fleischmann, Paul Kramer, Helen Ross, Delinquency and child guidance: selected papers1 more example
For example, some scholars thought that an eightlike figure on the robe of the Virgin signified that the image was the eighth wonder of the world.
2006, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, empire, and nationSynonyms: octiform
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveShaped like a figure eight.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw
- Proto-Germanic*ahtōu
- Proto-West Germanic*ahtō
- Old Englisheahta
- Middle Englisheighte
- Englisheight
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englisheightlike
Cite this entry
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