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18-612: Octo may refer to: The numeral prefix "octo-", from the Latin for the number eight Octo Telematics , a company that analyses driver behaviour for insurance companies etc. Octo (automobile) , a French car of the 1920s Octo , a character in the Japanese manga series Monster Musume See also [ edit ] Okto , a TV channel in Singapore Topics referred to by

36-618: A multiple of 10 rather than multiplication by it. Several common-use numerical prefixes denote vulgar fractions . Words containing non-technical numerical prefixes are usually not hyphenated. This is not an absolute rule, however, and there are exceptions (for example: quarter-deck occurs in addition to quarterdeck ). There are no exceptions for words comprising technical numerical prefixes, though. Systematic names and words comprising SI prefixes and binary prefixes are not hyphenated, by definition. Nonetheless, for clarity, dictionaries list numerical prefixes in hyphenated form, to distinguish

54-478: A non-Semitic descent suffix: The following Modern Hebrew hybrid words have an international prefix: Some hybrid words consist of both a non-Hebrew word and a non-Hebrew suffix of different origins: Some hybrid words consist of a non-Hebrew word and a Hebrew suffix: Modern Hebrew also has a productive derogatory prefixal shm- , which results in an 'echoic expressive'. For example, um shmum ( או״ם־שמו״ם ‎), literally 'United Nations shm-United Nations',

72-399: A numerical prefix need not be related to the root language of the word that it prefixes. Some words comprising numerical prefixes are hybrid words . In certain classes of systematic names, there are a few other exceptions to the rule of using Greek-derived numerical prefixes. The IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry , for example, uses the numerical prefixes derived from Greek, except for

90-425: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Numeral prefix In many European languages there are two principal systems, taken from Latin and Greek , each with several subsystems; in addition, Sanskrit occupies a marginal position. There is also an international set of metric prefixes , which are used in the world's standard measurement system . In

108-505: Is from English and "-ado" is from Khoribari In Japanese , hybrid words are common in kango (words formed from kanji characters) in which some of the characters may be pronounced using Chinese pronunciations ( on'yomi, from Chinese morphemes), and others in the same word are pronounced using Japanese pronunciations ( kun'yomi, from Japanese morphemes). These words are known as jūbako (重箱) or yutō (湯桶), which are themselves examples of this kind of compound (they are autological words ):

126-671: Is in turn from pro- and the Greek word for fat), and butane (from butyl , which is in turn from butyric , which is in turn from the Latin word for butter). Hybrid word A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages. Such words are a type of macaronic language . The most common form of hybrid word in English combines Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology , it

144-414: Is straightforward to add a prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word . Hybridisms were formerly often considered to be barbarisms . Modern Hebrew abounds with non- Semitic derivational affixes, which are applied to words of both Semitic and non-Semitic descent. The following hybrid words consist of a Hebrew-descent word and

162-589: Is traceable back to Yiddish , and is found in English as well as shm-reduplication . This is comparable to the Turkic initial m-segment conveying a sense of 'and so on' as in Turkish dergi mergi okumuyor , literally 'magazine "shmagazine" read:NEGATIVE:PRESENT:3rd.person.singular', i.e. '(He) doesn't read magazine, journals or anything like that'. In Filipino , hybrid words are called siyokoy (literally "merman"). For example, concernado ("concerned"): "concern-"

180-442: The English first , second , third , which specify position of items in a sequence. In Latin and Greek, the ordinal forms are also used for fractions for amounts higher than 2; only the fraction ⁠ 1  / 2 ⁠ has special forms. The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers second ary and terti ary and the distributive numbers bi nary and ter nary . For

198-460: The English once , twice , thrice , that specify the number of events or instances of otherwise identical or similar items. Enumeration with the distributive catgegory originally was meant to specify one each , two each or one by one , two by two , etc., giving how many items of each type are desired or had been found, although distinct word forms for that meaning are now mostly lost. The ordinal catgegory are based on ordinal numbers such as

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216-561: The common inheritance of Greek and Latin roots across the Romance languages , the import of much of that derived vocabulary into non-Romance languages (such as into English via Norman French ), and the borrowing of 19th and 20th century coinages into many languages, the same numerical prefixes occur in many languages. Numerical prefixes are not restricted to denoting integers. Some of the SI prefixes denote negative powers of 10, i.e. division by

234-452: The following prefixes, a final vowel is normally dropped before a root that begins with a vowel, with the exceptions of bi-, which is extended to bis- before a vowel; among the other monosyllables , du- , di- , dvi- , and tri- , never vary. Words in the cardinal catgegory are cardinal numbers , such as the English one , two , three , which name the count of items in a sequence. The multiple category are adverbial numbers, like

252-500: The hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent- , from the original Latin, and those in -cent- , derived from centi- , etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 . Many of the items in the following tables are not in general use, but may rather be regarded as coinages by individuals. In scientific contexts, either scientific notation or SI prefixes are used to express very large or very small numbers, and not unwieldy prefixes. ( but hybrid hexadecimal ) Because of

270-520: The prefix for 9 (as mentioned) and the prefixes from 1 to 4 (meth-, eth-, prop-, and but-), which are not derived from words for numbers. These prefixes were invented by the IUPAC, deriving them from the pre-existing names for several compounds that it was intended to preserve in the new system: methane (via methyl , which is in turn from the Greek word for wine), ethane (from ethyl coined by Justus von Liebig in 1834), propane (from propionic , which

288-405: The prefixes from words with the same spellings (such as duo- and duo ). Several technical numerical prefixes are not derived from words for numbers. ( mega- is not derived from a number word, for example.) Similarly, some are only derived from words for numbers inasmuch as they are word play . ( Peta- is word play on penta- , for example. See its etymology for details.) The root language of

306-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Octo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Octo&oldid=1078987365 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

324-532: Was a pejorative description by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion , of the United Nations , called in Modern Hebrew umot meukhadot ( אומות מאוחדות ‎) and abbreviated um ( או״ם ‎). Thus, when a Hebrew speaker would like to express his impatience with or disdain for philosophy, s/he can say filosófya- shm ilosófya ( פילוסופיה־שמילוסופיה ‎). Modern Hebrew shm-

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