2024年11月26日 星期二

octo-, octogenarian, nonagenarian, and all that. A charming little octopus from a Roman villa


🔸A charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.
©️📸Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid/Alison Fisk
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A Taiwanese nonagenarian finished a 400-meter run in 2:38.56 at the Asia Masters Athletics Championships Sunday, breaking a world record in the 95-year-old group that had been there for 12 years. Peng Hong-nian, 96, said he would have run ...


Mr Kossoff will soon be 84. Nobody gets to be an octogenarian without sometimes feeling heavy-limbed and in need of a prop (usually in the form of a chair).


First world problems and all that, but we need an answer!

 and all that
used for saying that you could add other things to the ones that you have mentioned
When I was a kid I was crazy about judokarate, kung fu, and all that.



octo-

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek ὀκτώ ‎(oktṓeight) and Latin octō ‎(eight).

Prefix[edit]

Latin number prefix
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octo- or before a vowel oct-
  1. eight

Derived terms[edit]

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Synonyms[edit]

nonagenarian[non・a・ge・nar・i・an]
  [nɑ`nədʒənéəriən | nòun-]

[形][名]90歳

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