octolingual

In 1539 Estienne reversed his Dictionarium, a direct descendant of his own Latin Thesaurus, into the Dictionnaire that was the ancestor of Nicot’s French Thresor. He did this because when popular demand required a reprinting of the octolingual Calepin, Estienne found this work unacceptable and a willing revisor unavailable.

1985, Dictionaries, number 7, page 34

Makkai is the author of Cantio Nocturna Peregrini Aviumque [Nightsong of the Wanderer and the Birds], an octolingual book of poetry honoring Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 250 anniversary in 1999.

1997, In Quest of the 'Miracle Stag': The Poetry of Hungary, volume II, published 2003, →ISBN, page 537

Also due for mention is Berlaymont’s octolingual dictionary, among them also Dutch, the Colloquia et dictionariolum octo linguarum; Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae et Portugallicae.

1998, Quaerendo, volume 28, page 153

Two years later, in 1639, an octolingual edition was issued by ‘Michael Sparke junior’ under the title New Dialogues or Colloquies, and, A little Dictionary of eight Languages. Latine, French, Low-Dutch [i.e. Flemish], High-Dutch [i.e. German], Spanish, Italian, English, Portugall.

2004, Russian Society and Culture and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays in Honour of Anthony G. Cross, →ISBN, page 155

From 1565 onward Junius’ works were published with Christopher Plantin: his religious poem on the Passion (Anastaurosis), his edition of Nonius Marcellus and his Emblemata et Aenigmata (all in 1565), his frequently reprinted and adapted octolingual dictionary Nomenclator (1567), his editions of Eunapius and Martial (both 1568), and his edition of Hesychius (1572).

2011, Dirk van Miert, Han van Ruler, editors, The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575): Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, pages 9–10

When I visited Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories some months ago I learned that one of the towns in the north—I am sorry, I forget which one—declared itself octolingual, to represent all of the languages spoken including, I might add, English and French, and six different native languages in that particular small town.

1990, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report, volume 131

If the Japanese are the only producers of octolingual word processors the price will not be important; and if the relative deterioration of the British human capital stock continues, no rate for the pound against the yen will stimulate British exports from knowledge-intensive activities in either goods or services.

1991, Handbooks to the Modern World: Asia and the Pacific, page 1321

The octolingual Play Hard addresses the extensive diversity within Taiwan itself by adding Hakka, the language of a significant minority group, as well as Sichuanese and Shanghainese, reflecting the wide range of areas in China from which people emigrated to Taiwan during the Nationalist retreat.

2000, Asian Theatre Journal, volume 17, page 273

Also an octolingual Yugoslavian who was a lieutenant in the French Foreign Legion and was imprisoned in Buchenwald during the war, a Berlin business man, an economics professor and a girl who was the private secretary for Dinah Shore for three years.

1964, Technograph, volume 80, pages 32, 34

The faith he [Keshub Chunder Sen] preached was the Brahmo Samaj, founded in 1828 by the octolingual (Bengali, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, English, Greek, Latin and Hebrew) scholar Raja Rammohun Roy.

2004, Lucy Moore, Maharanis: A Family Saga of Four Queens, published 2006, →ISBN